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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... position . As to the principle of non - interven- tion on the part of Congress in the question of slavery , I do not find that , either as principle or as measure , it was enacted in those territorial bills of 1850. I do not , unless I ...
... position . As to the principle of non - interven- tion on the part of Congress in the question of slavery , I do not find that , either as principle or as measure , it was enacted in those territorial bills of 1850. I do not , unless I ...
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... position the next year — having been requested by that great and lamented man to superintend the publication of his works - to know very particularly the comparative estimate which he placed upon his own parliamentary efforts . He told ...
... position the next year — having been requested by that great and lamented man to superintend the publication of his works - to know very particularly the comparative estimate which he placed upon his own parliamentary efforts . He told ...
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... position . We were aware that , from 1820 to 1850 , the abolition doctrine of Congressional interference with slavery in the Territories and new States had so far pre- vailed as to keep up an incessant slavery agita- tion in Congress ...
... position . We were aware that , from 1820 to 1850 , the abolition doctrine of Congressional interference with slavery in the Territories and new States had so far pre- vailed as to keep up an incessant slavery agita- tion in Congress ...
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... position , why do they not meet the issue boldly and fairly , and controvert the soundness of this great principle of popular sovereignty in obedi- ence to the Constitution ? They know full well that this was the principle upon which ...
... position , why do they not meet the issue boldly and fairly , and controvert the soundness of this great principle of popular sovereignty in obedi- ence to the Constitution ? They know full well that this was the principle upon which ...
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... position upon the doctrine either of inter- vention or non - intervention . We chose the latter for two reasons : first , because we be- lieved that the principle was right ; and , sec- ond , because it was the principle adopted in 1850 ...
... position upon the doctrine either of inter- vention or non - intervention . We chose the latter for two reasons : first , because we be- lieved that the principle was right ; and , sec- ond , because it was the principle adopted in 1850 ...
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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.