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... Supreme Court of the United States ; but the decision of it was deferred until after the election . Still , before the election , Senator Trum- bull , on the floor of the Senate , requested the leading advocate of the Nebraska bill to ...
... Supreme Court of the United States ; but the decision of it was deferred until after the election . Still , before the election , Senator Trum- bull , on the floor of the Senate , requested the leading advocate of the Nebraska bill to ...
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... Supreme Court decision , declaring that the Constitution of the United States does not permit a State to exclude slavery from its limits . And this may especially be expected if the doctrine of " care not whether slaver be voted down or ...
... Supreme Court decision , declaring that the Constitution of the United States does not permit a State to exclude slavery from its limits . And this may especially be expected if the doctrine of " care not whether slaver be voted down or ...
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... Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from their limits , are you in favor of acquiescing in , adopting , and following such decision as a rule of political action ? Q. 4. Are you in favor ...
... Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from their limits , are you in favor of acquiescing in , adopting , and following such decision as a rule of political action ? Q. 4. Are you in favor ...
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... Supreme Court would or might be made , the voting down of that amendment would be perfectly rational and intelligible . It would keep Congress from coming in collision with the decision when it was made . Anybody can conceive that if ...
... Supreme Court would or might be made , the voting down of that amendment would be perfectly rational and intelligible . It would keep Congress from coming in collision with the decision when it was made . Anybody can conceive that if ...
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... Supreme Court , and two Presidents , to nationalize slavery . I want to say that , in the first place , I have made no charge of this sort upon my ipse dixit . I have only arrayed the evidence tending to prove it , and presented it ...
... Supreme Court , and two Presidents , to nationalize slavery . I want to say that , in the first place , I have made no charge of this sort upon my ipse dixit . I have only arrayed the evidence tending to prove it , and presented it ...
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Page 36 - We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object, and confident promise, of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. " A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 75 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 96 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 139 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
Page 36 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push...
Page 37 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 203 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.
Page 263 - Wrong as we think slavery is, we can yet afford to let it alone where it is, because that much is due to the necessity arising from its actual presence in the nation; but can we, while our votes will prevent it, allow it to spread into the national Territories and to overrun us here in these free States? If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.
Page 40 - But when we see a lot of framed timbers, different portions of which we know have been gotten out at different times and places and by different workmen -Stephen, Franklin, Roger and James,* for instance...
Page 250 - Now, and here, let me guard a little against being misunderstood. I do not mean to say we are bound to follow implicitly in whatever our fathers did. To do so would be to discard all the lights of current experience —to reject all progress — all improvement.