American Eloquence: V. The anti-slavery struggle (continued) VI. SecessionAlexander Johnston G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... Legislature . I dare say it was found that the votes of these gentlemen could not be had for the bill with that clause in it . It was not enough that the committee had abandoned their report , and added this twenty- first section , in ...
... Legislature . I dare say it was found that the votes of these gentlemen could not be had for the bill with that clause in it . It was not enough that the committee had abandoned their report , and added this twenty- first section , in ...
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... Legislature to prohibit the introduction of slavery . It was just seven days , Mr. President , after the Senator from Kentucky had offered his amendment , that a fresh amendment was re- ported from the Committee on Territories , in the ...
... Legislature to prohibit the introduction of slavery . It was just seven days , Mr. President , after the Senator from Kentucky had offered his amendment , that a fresh amendment was re- ported from the Committee on Territories , in the ...
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... Legislature itself , for a suspension of the clause in the ordinance prohibiting slavery . These applications were reported upon by John Ran- dolph , of Virginia , in the House , and by Mr. Franklin in the Senate . Both the reports were ...
... Legislature itself , for a suspension of the clause in the ordinance prohibiting slavery . These applications were reported upon by John Ran- dolph , of Virginia , in the House , and by Mr. Franklin in the Senate . Both the reports were ...
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... Legislatures should not legislate upon the subject of African slavery . I objected to that provision upon the ground that it subverted the great principle of self- government upon which the bill had been originally framed by the ...
... Legislatures should not legislate upon the subject of African slavery . I objected to that provision upon the ground that it subverted the great principle of self- government upon which the bill had been originally framed by the ...
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... Legislature in which they are not represented . We are willing to stand upon this great principle of self - government every- where ; and it is to us a proud reflection that , in this whole discussion , no friend of the bill has urged ...
... Legislature in which they are not represented . We are willing to stand upon this great principle of self - government every- where ; and it is to us a proud reflection that , in this whole discussion , no friend of the bill has urged ...
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Page 170 - 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 169 - 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...
Page 158 - It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race, which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted.
Page 164 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Page 168 - 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 173 - ... Nebraska bill, on the mere question of fact, whether the Lecompton Constitution was or was not, in any just sense, made by the people of Kansas ; and in that quarrel...
Page 360 - Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, — Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
Page 169 - Have we no tendency to the latter condition? Let any one who doubts, carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination — piece of machinery, so to speak — compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision. Let him consider not only what work the machinery is adapted to do, and how well adapted; but also let him study the history of its construction, and trace, if he can, or rather fail, if he can, to trace the evidences of design and concert of action among its chief...
Page 409 - That the new dogma, that the constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the territories of the United States...
Page 174 - That no negro slave, imported as such from Africa, and no descendant of such slave, can ever be a citizen of any State, in the sense of that term as used in the Constitution of the United States.