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... District , but Defeated by the Powers at Washington . Secret Correspondence of Buchanan's Lieutenants . Estab- lishment of a Hostile Press . Nominated a Fourth Time by his Party . A Bolting Convention and a Rival Candidate . Wilmot ...
... District , but Defeated by the Powers at Washington . Secret Correspondence of Buchanan's Lieutenants . Estab- lishment of a Hostile Press . Nominated a Fourth Time by his Party . A Bolting Convention and a Rival Candidate . Wilmot ...
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... district ( Tioga , Potter and McKean ) and by the rival ambitions of two candidates for the nomination as member of Congress , Willard and Morris . It fell to the remaining counties of the old seventeenth district - Susquehanna and ...
... district ( Tioga , Potter and McKean ) and by the rival ambitions of two candidates for the nomination as member of Congress , Willard and Morris . It fell to the remaining counties of the old seventeenth district - Susquehanna and ...
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... district attorney in the prosecution of some of the most important cases on the docket - notably the trial of James and Margaret Dolan for the murder of Rufus Gere , which came up in September , 1843 , and was the sensation of the ...
... district attorney in the prosecution of some of the most important cases on the docket - notably the trial of James and Margaret Dolan for the murder of Rufus Gere , which came up in September , 1843 , and was the sensation of the ...
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... district were unready to assent , he had thrown his influence toward the selection of Mr. Read . Now that his turn had come , however , it had unusual features which at- tracted notice far outside his political neighborhood . The first ...
... district were unready to assent , he had thrown his influence toward the selection of Mr. Read . Now that his turn had come , however , it had unusual features which at- tracted notice far outside his political neighborhood . The first ...
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... district in your favor , as this letter shows them to be in your own . Wilmot's reply to this , his first popular invitation to public office , bearing the same date as the letter above , ran thus : Gentlemen - Your note of this date ...
... district in your favor , as this letter shows them to be in your own . Wilmot's reply to this , his first popular invitation to public office , bearing the same date as the letter above , ran thus : Gentlemen - Your note of this date ...
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Page 216 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 418 - That Congress has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution...
Page 576 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 98 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty that may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 418 - Abolitionists or others, made to induce congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.
Page 286 - Ohio; and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to, and enjoy, all and singular the rights, privileges, and advantages granted and secured to the people by the said ordinance.
Page 617 - Our national strife springs not from our permanent part> not from the land we inhabit, not from our national homestead. There is no possible severing of this but would multiply, and not mitigate, evils among us. In all its adaptations and aptitudes it demands union and abhors separation. In fact, it would ere long force reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost.
Page 106 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page 118 - That Congress doth consent that the territory properly included within and rightfully belonging to the Republic of Texas may be erected into a new State, to be called the State of Texas, with a republican form of government, to be adopted by the people of said Republic, by deputies in convention assembled, with the consent of the existing Government, in order that the same may be admitted as one of the States of this Union.
Page 50 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.