The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase, United States Senator and Governor of Ohio |
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... prohibition of slavery , which was then pending in the Senate of the United States . The election which followed , as all the world knows , resulted in the choice of General Taylor : 2,872,000 votes were cast , by the people , and of ...
... prohibition of slavery , which was then pending in the Senate of the United States . The election which followed , as all the world knows , resulted in the choice of General Taylor : 2,872,000 votes were cast , by the people , and of ...
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... prohibition of slavery . Of the members of the convention , some sixteen were natives and had been residents of the slaveholding States ; twenty - two were from the non - slaveholding States , and the re- maining ten members were either ...
... prohibition of slavery . Of the members of the convention , some sixteen were natives and had been residents of the slaveholding States ; twenty - two were from the non - slaveholding States , and the re- maining ten members were either ...
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... prohibiting the slave - trade in the District of Columbia . Upon the principal matters involved in this report , Mr. Chase had already , on the 26th and 27th of March , in a speech occupying a portion of each of those two days , stated ...
... prohibiting the slave - trade in the District of Columbia . Upon the principal matters involved in this report , Mr. Chase had already , on the 26th and 27th of March , in a speech occupying a portion of each of those two days , stated ...
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... prohibition , and continuing this under the sanc- tion of national law ? " Touching the proposition to make more effectual provision for the extradition of fugitive slaves , he inquired where in the Constitution power was conferred upon ...
... prohibition , and continuing this under the sanc- tion of national law ? " Touching the proposition to make more effectual provision for the extradition of fugitive slaves , he inquired where in the Constitution power was conferred upon ...
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... prohibition . He paid some particular attention to the doctrine of Mr. Webster that physical law had excluded it from Utah and New Mexico . " Is it true , " he asked , " that any law of physical geography will protect the new Terri ...
... prohibition . He paid some particular attention to the doctrine of Mr. Webster that physical law had excluded it from Utah and New Mexico . " Is it true , " he asked , " that any law of physical geography will protect the new Terri ...
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Page 459 - ... order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof respectively are this day in rebellion against the United States...
Page 153 - 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 75 - An act concerning aliens," is contrary to the Constitution, one amendment to which has provided that "no person shall be deprived of liberty without due process of law...
Page 459 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Page 460 - And I further declare and make known that such persons, of suitable condition will be received into the armed service of the United States to garrison forts, positions, stations, and other places and to man vessels of all sorts in said service. And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Page 143 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Page 459 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are and henceforward shall be free...
Page 59 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Page 320 - State, or any section or part thereof, where such insurrection exists, are in a state of insurrection against the United States ; 1 and thereupon all commercial intercourse by and between the same and the citizens thereof and the citizens of the rest of the United States shall cease and be unlawful so long as such condition of hostility shall continue...