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... called around him his political friends - one of whom is now in England - warned them that in no event could the Union survive the Presi- dential election of 1860 , though it might possibly break up before that ; counter - threats of ...
... called around him his political friends - one of whom is now in England - warned them that in no event could the Union survive the Presi- dential election of 1860 , though it might possibly break up before that ; counter - threats of ...
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... called Kansas , and the balance to be known as Nebraska - one of the sections of the Bill en- acting : " That in order to avoid all misconstruction it is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of this Act , so far as the ...
... called Kansas , and the balance to be known as Nebraska - one of the sections of the Bill en- acting : " That in order to avoid all misconstruction it is hereby declared to be the true intent and meaning of this Act , so far as the ...
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... called the Compromise Measures , and is declared inoperative . " And when explaining this " Kansas - Nebraska Bill " Mr. Douglas announced that , in reporting it , " The object of the Committee was neither to legislate Slavery in or out ...
... called the Compromise Measures , and is declared inoperative . " And when explaining this " Kansas - Nebraska Bill " Mr. Douglas announced that , in reporting it , " The object of the Committee was neither to legislate Slavery in or out ...
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... called a Constitutional Con- vention at Lecompton , which formed a Pro - Slavery Consti- tution . This was submitted to the people in such dexterous manner that they could only vote " For the Constitution with Slavery " or " For the ...
... called a Constitutional Con- vention at Lecompton , which formed a Pro - Slavery Consti- tution . This was submitted to the people in such dexterous manner that they could only vote " For the Constitution with Slavery " or " For the ...
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... called by the Territorial Legislature for the purpose , met at Wyandot , and framed a Free State Constitution which was adopted by the people in October of that year , and at the ensuing State election in December the State went ...
... called by the Territorial Legislature for the purpose , met at Wyandot , and framed a Free State Constitution which was adopted by the people in October of that year , and at the ensuing State election in December the State went ...
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Page 439 - That on the first day of January, in the year of "our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty"three, all persons held as slaves within any State or "designated part of a State, the people whereof shall "then be in rebellion against the United States, shall "be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 682 - 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 18 - States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Page 184 - Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are...
Page 629 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the Providence of God, must needs come, but which having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Page 514 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 11 - ... 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 497 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Page 50 - 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/ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Page 3 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.