A History of the American People, Volume 7Harper & brothers, 1918 - United States |
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... issue that was to be joined and settled was first drawn to the light , with painful vividness , by a debate in the Senate on the disposition of the western lands . The New England men wanted the settlement of the MODEL OF THE STOCKTON ...
... issue that was to be joined and settled was first drawn to the light , with painful vividness , by a debate in the Senate on the disposition of the western lands . The New England men wanted the settlement of the MODEL OF THE STOCKTON ...
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... issue between East and West . The tariff itself was an issue between North and South , and drew after it , when read into the question of the western lands , no less a matter than the extension of slavery and the domination of sections ...
... issue between East and West . The tariff itself was an issue between North and South , and drew after it , when read into the question of the western lands , no less a matter than the extension of slavery and the domination of sections ...
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... issue to its last analysis , and that issue nothing less than the nation's destiny . The debaters were already marked men . The Senator from South Carolina , though not yet forty , had won his laurels as a lad in the war of 1812 , had ...
... issue to its last analysis , and that issue nothing less than the nation's destiny . The debaters were already marked men . The Senator from South Carolina , though not yet forty , had won his laurels as a lad in the war of 1812 , had ...
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... issue . No doctrine which touched practice so nearly could very long remain a thing of theory while General Jackson was on the field of action , and the advocates of nulli- fication were of no mind to stop with the debate on the western ...
... issue . No doctrine which touched practice so nearly could very long remain a thing of theory while General Jackson was on the field of action , and the advocates of nulli- fication were of no mind to stop with the debate on the western ...
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... issue of the contest had been the re - election or rejection of General Jackson , upon his record as Presi- dent and political leader . Although he took the result as a verdict against South Carolina , as a verdict against every one who ...
... issue of the contest had been the re - election or rejection of General Jackson , upon his record as Presi- dent and political leader . Although he took the result as a verdict against South Carolina , as a verdict against every one who ...
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Page 273 - States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirtysix degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire. And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery, or involuntary servitude, (except for crime,) shall be prohibited.
Page 313 - ... it intersects the first branch of the river Gila (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same) ; thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river, until it empties into the Rio Colorado, thence across the Rio Colorado, following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the Pacific Ocean.
Page 233 - ... hath made of one blood all nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth...
Page 316 - Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens, or acquire those of citizens of the United States. But they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall be considered to have elected...
Page 318 - The Mexicans who, in the territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States and be admitted at the proper time (to be judged of by the Congress of the United States...
Page 190 - I consider then the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE ON WHICH IT WAS FOUNDED, AND DESTRUCTIVE OF THE GREAT OBJECT FOR WHICH IT WAS FOR5IED.
Page 166 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Page 194 - The Constitution of the United States then forms a government, not a league, and whether it be formed by compact between the states, or in any other manner, its character is the same.
Page 309 - 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 209 - Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority, and should not be regarded as deciding questions of constitutional power except where the acquiescence of the people and the States can be considered as well settled.