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Speech of CHARLES O'CONOR ( N. Y. ) on the Attack : " Slavery Is Right . " Debate in the Senate on Investigation of the Attack : Democratic speakers , JAMES M. MASON ( Va . ) , ROBERT M. T. HUNTER ( Va . ) , JEFFERSON DAVIS ( Miss . ) ...
Speech of CHARLES O'CONOR ( N. Y. ) on the Attack : " Slavery Is Right . " Debate in the Senate on Investigation of the Attack : Democratic speakers , JAMES M. MASON ( Va . ) , ROBERT M. T. HUNTER ( Va . ) , JEFFERSON DAVIS ( Miss . ) ...
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The convention formed a constitution which recognized slavery and submitted it to the people at an election held on December 21. The vote was taken " For the constitution with slavery " or " For the constitution without slavery ...
The convention formed a constitution which recognized slavery and submitted it to the people at an election held on December 21. The vote was taken " For the constitution with slavery " or " For the constitution without slavery ...
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Others objected to the extreme position he had taken in declaring that the nation could not continue half slave and half free . Jesse K. Dubois said that it was " a damned fool speech " which would lose him the election .
Others objected to the extreme position he had taken in declaring that the nation could not continue half slave and half free . Jesse K. Dubois said that it was " a damned fool speech " which would lose him the election .
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The working points of that machinery are : ( 1 ) 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 ...
The working points of that machinery are : ( 1 ) 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 ...
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gress nor a territorial legislature to exclude slavery from any United States Territory , they all omit to declare whether or not the same Constitution permits a State , or the people of a State , to exclude it .
gress nor a territorial legislature to exclude slavery from any United States Territory , they all omit to declare whether or not the same Constitution permits a State , or the people of a State , to exclude it .
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| Title | Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) Volume 5 of Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913), Marion Mills Miller |
| Editor | Marion Mills Miller |
| Contributors | United States. Congress, Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2010 |
| ISBN | 0810803860, 9780810803862 |
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