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... Wilmot Proviso - The Sub - Treasury - Tariff — Internal Improve- ments - Oregon - Peace with Mexico - Liberty League - Nominations for the Canvass of 1848 - Free Soil Party - TABLE OF CONTENTS . vii.
... Wilmot Proviso - The Sub - Treasury - Tariff — Internal Improve- ments - Oregon - Peace with Mexico - Liberty League - Nominations for the Canvass of 1848 - Free Soil Party - TABLE OF CONTENTS . vii.
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... Wilmot moved a proviso to the bill prohibiting slavery in the terri- tory that should be acquired . This provision , after the name of its originator , was called the WILMOT PROVISO . This was supported by the whigs and northern ...
... Wilmot moved a proviso to the bill prohibiting slavery in the terri- tory that should be acquired . This provision , after the name of its originator , was called the WILMOT PROVISO . This was supported by the whigs and northern ...
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... Wilmot proviso attached , was passed by the House , but was not acted on by 254 HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS .
... Wilmot proviso attached , was passed by the House , but was not acted on by 254 HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICS .
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... Wilmot proviso attached , appropriat- ing $ 3,000,000 for the purchase of territory from Mexico . The Senate passed the bill , but threw off the proviso . Finally , after great opposition on the part of the whigs , the House passed the ...
... Wilmot proviso attached , appropriat- ing $ 3,000,000 for the purchase of territory from Mexico . The Senate passed the bill , but threw off the proviso . Finally , after great opposition on the part of the whigs , the House passed the ...
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... Wilmot proviso as a party principle were voted down ; so that in this campaign the whigs were not an anti - slavery party , nor were the democrats a pro - slav- ery party . On the 9th of June a ratification meeting was held in the same ...
... Wilmot proviso as a party principle were voted down ; so that in this campaign the whigs were not an anti - slavery party , nor were the democrats a pro - slav- ery party . On the 9th of June a ratification meeting was held in the same ...
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Page 121 - ... so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, on a respectable defensive...
Page 120 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Page 116 - It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms ; kindles the animosity of one part against another ; foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Page 58 - States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State. ARTICLE V. For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct...
Page 313 - 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 it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 152 - In questions of power then let no more be heard" of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief, by the chains of the Constitution.
Page 121 - ... by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with powers so disposed, in order to give trade a stable course, to define the rights of our merchants, and to enable the Government to support them, conventional rules of intercourse, the best that present circumstances and mutual opinion will permit, but temporary and liable to be from time to time abandoned or varied as experience and circumstances shall dictate...
Page 42 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State, will effectually provide for the same.
Page 60 - ... the United States in Congress assembled shall, from time to time, direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states, within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Page 122 - The considerations which respect the right to hold this conduct, it is not necessary on this occasion to detail. I will only observe that, according to my understanding of the matter, that right, so far from being denied by any of the belligerent Powers, has been virtually admitted by all.