That we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form... Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 40by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890Full view - About this book
| United States. Department of the Interior - 1857 - 810 pages
...and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it — to form a constitution with or without slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States." The convention to frame a constitution for Kansas met on the first Monday of September last. They were... | |
| Rushmore G. Horton - Campaign literature, 1856 - 1856 - 446 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States. " Resolved, finally, That in view of the condition of popular institutions in the Old World (and the... | |
| Campaign literature - 1856 - 88 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States. Resolved, finally, That in view of the condition of popular institutions in the Old World, (and the... | |
| Campaign literature - 1856 - 54 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States. -Resolved, finally, That, in view of the condition of the popular institutions in the Old World (and... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Morris - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 420 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States." The Whig National Convention, in 1848, nominated General Taylor, of Louisiana, for President, and Millard... | |
| John G. Wells - Politicians - 1856 - 156 pages
...whenerer the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other states. Resolved, finally, That in view of the condition of popular institutions in the Old World, (and the... | |
| United States - 1856 - 642 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States." In the name of reason, of justice, of every principle of free government and natural right, what other... | |
| United States - 1856 - 654 pages
...of their Inhabitants Justifies It, to form a confutation, with or without domestic slavery, and bo admitted Into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other Stales." These principles, I have said, are embodied in the Kansas act ; and they must be carried out... | |
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