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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... believe the Missouri prohibition to be constitutional and effectual . Now , what did the committee pro- pose ? Did they propose to repeal the prohibi- tion ? Did they suggest that it had been super- seded ? Did they advance any idea of ...
... believe the Missouri prohibition to be constitutional and effectual . Now , what did the committee pro- pose ? Did they propose to repeal the prohibi- tion ? Did they suggest that it had been super- seded ? Did they advance any idea of ...
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... believe it until I see it . If you wish to break up the time - honored compact embodied in the Missouri compromise , transferred into the joint resolution for the annexation of Texas , pre- served and affirmed by these compromise acts ...
... believe it until I see it . If you wish to break up the time - honored compact embodied in the Missouri compromise , transferred into the joint resolution for the annexation of Texas , pre- served and affirmed by these compromise acts ...
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... believe , have actually been carried into Utah and New Mexico . They may be few , perhaps , but a few are enough to affect materially the probable character of their future governments . Under the evil influences of the same spirit , we ...
... believe , have actually been carried into Utah and New Mexico . They may be few , perhaps , but a few are enough to affect materially the probable character of their future governments . Under the evil influences of the same spirit , we ...
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... believe , con- tinued to be the uniform practice down to the year 1820 , when the State of Missouri was ad- mitted . She was admitted under the stipula- tion . If I mistake not , the next State which was admitted into the Union - but it ...
... believe , con- tinued to be the uniform practice down to the year 1820 , when the State of Missouri was ad- mitted . She was admitted under the stipula- tion . If I mistake not , the next State which was admitted into the Union - but it ...
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... believe it never occurred to any one that the legislation of 1790 acted back upon the ordinance of 1787 , or furnished a rule by which any effect could be produced upon the state of things existing under that ordinance , in the ...
... believe it never occurred to any one that the legislation of 1790 acted back upon the ordinance of 1787 , or furnished a rule by which any effect could be produced upon the state of things existing under that ordinance , in the ...
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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.