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... given time they would examine his proficiency upon the subjects he had been reading . Wilmot received the word without the slightest demon- stration of interest in the subject of the notice . In the intervening time before his ...
... given time they would examine his proficiency upon the subjects he had been reading . Wilmot received the word without the slightest demon- stration of interest in the subject of the notice . In the intervening time before his ...
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... given to it by the contempo- rary press , his course throughout seems to have been marked by fairness and good sense . Incidentally , he supported the successful candidate , Samuel W. Morris , of Tioga County ; and this success made his ...
... given to it by the contempo- rary press , his course throughout seems to have been marked by fairness and good sense . Incidentally , he supported the successful candidate , Samuel W. Morris , of Tioga County ; and this success made his ...
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... given the chairman , the secretary , and two members of a committee of notification . The first was Bull's partner ; the second , a whig with a reputation for political trickery ; the last two promptly repudiated any connection with the ...
... given the chairman , the secretary , and two members of a committee of notification . The first was Bull's partner ; the second , a whig with a reputation for political trickery ; the last two promptly repudiated any connection with the ...
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... given the State electoral ticket and 700 more than that given to Polk . Borne along by the enthusiasm of the victory , Wilmot's allies suggested and even urged his candidacy for the United States Senate , in succession to James Buchanan ...
... given the State electoral ticket and 700 more than that given to Polk . Borne along by the enthusiasm of the victory , Wilmot's allies suggested and even urged his candidacy for the United States Senate , in succession to James Buchanan ...
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... given me by Mr. Shields left the very painful impression that Mr. Buchanan had been willing to see my nomination of Mr. Woodward rejected by the Senate , in order to obtain the office himself . . . . Of one thing , however , I am ...
... given me by Mr. Shields left the very painful impression that Mr. Buchanan had been willing to see my nomination of Mr. Woodward rejected by the Senate , in order to obtain the office himself . . . . Of one thing , however , I am ...
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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.