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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... elections are justly placed among the highest triumphs of civiliza- tion , I fearlessly assert that the wrongs of much - abused Sicily , thus memorable in history , were small by the side of the wrongs of Kansas , where the very shrines ...
... elections are justly placed among the highest triumphs of civiliza- tion , I fearlessly assert that the wrongs of much - abused Sicily , thus memorable in history , were small by the side of the wrongs of Kansas , where the very shrines ...
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... election of the Senator to his present seat on this floor , civilization might lose - I do not say how little ; but surely less than it has already gained by the example of Kansas , in its valiant struggle against oppression , and in ...
... election of the Senator to his present seat on this floor , civilization might lose - I do not say how little ; but surely less than it has already gained by the example of Kansas , in its valiant struggle against oppression , and in ...
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... election been otherwise , and had not the ( Democratic ) party triumphed on the dogma which they had thus introduced , we should never have heard of a doctrine so utterly at variance with all truth ; so utterly desti- tute of all legal ...
... election been otherwise , and had not the ( Democratic ) party triumphed on the dogma which they had thus introduced , we should never have heard of a doctrine so utterly at variance with all truth ; so utterly desti- tute of all legal ...
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... election , the law - case came to , and was argued in , the Supreme Court of the United States ; but the decision of it was deferred un- til after the election . Still , before the election , Senator Trumbull , on the floor of the ...
... election , the law - case came to , and was argued in , the Supreme Court of the United States ; but the decision of it was deferred un- til after the election . Still , before the election , Senator Trumbull , on the floor of the ...
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... election came , Mr. Buchanan was elected , and the indorsement , such as it was , secured . That was the second point gained . The in- dorsement , however , fell short of a clear popu- lar majority by nearly four hundred thousand votes ...
... election came , Mr. Buchanan was elected , and the indorsement , such as it was , secured . That was the second point gained . The in- dorsement , however , fell short of a clear popu- lar majority by nearly four hundred thousand votes ...
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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.