Great Debates in American History: Slavery from 1790 to 1857Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... Suppose there was a petition to come before us from a society praying us to be honest in our transactions , or that we should administer the Constitution ac- cording to its intent , what would you do with a petition of this kind ...
... Suppose there was a petition to come before us from a society praying us to be honest in our transactions , or that we should administer the Constitution ac- cording to its intent , what would you do with a petition of this kind ...
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... suppose will arise from their exertions ? Will a duty of ten dollars diminish the importation ? Will the treatment be better than usual ? I apprehend not ; nay , it may be worse , because an interference with the subject may excite a ...
... suppose will arise from their exertions ? Will a duty of ten dollars diminish the importation ? Will the treatment be better than usual ? I apprehend not ; nay , it may be worse , because an interference with the subject may excite a ...
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... the nations of Europe are asso- ciated ; it is the basis of the feudal system . But , suppose all this to have been wrong , let me ask the gentleman if it is good policy to bring forward a business at this moment likely THE SLAVE TRADE 13.
... the nations of Europe are asso- ciated ; it is the basis of the feudal system . But , suppose all this to have been wrong , let me ask the gentleman if it is good policy to bring forward a business at this moment likely THE SLAVE TRADE 13.
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... suppose their tenets of a moral tendency . I am informed one of them forbids to intermarry . Now , if these people were to petition Congress to pass a law prohibiting matrimony would gentlemen agree to refer such a petition ? I think if ...
... suppose their tenets of a moral tendency . I am informed one of them forbids to intermarry . Now , if these people were to petition Congress to pass a law prohibiting matrimony would gentlemen agree to refer such a petition ? I think if ...
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... suppose are enter- tained of laboring men by the majority of slaveholders ? Whom of that class have they ever called to fill stations of any consid- erable responsibility ? When have we seen a Representative on this floor , from that ...
... suppose are enter- tained of laboring men by the majority of slaveholders ? Whom of that class have they ever called to fill stations of any consid- erable responsibility ? When have we seen a Representative on this floor , from that ...
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Page 45 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 303 - 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 388 - 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 372 - The general words above quoted would seem to embrace the whole human family, and if they were used in a similar instrument at this day would be so understood. But it is too clear for dispute that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this Declaration...
Page 215 - There can be no such thing as a peaceable secession. Peaceable secession is an utter impossibility. Is the great Constitution under which we live, covering this whole country — is it to be thawed and melted away by secession, as the snows on the mountain melt under the influence of a vernal sun, disappear almost unobserved, and run off? No, sir! No, sir!
Page 363 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 217 - In all its history it has been beneficent; it has trodden down no man's liberty ; it has crushed no State. Its daily respiration is liberty and patriotism ; its yet youthful veins are full of enterprise, courage, and honorable love of glory and renown. Large before, the country has now, by recent events, become vastly larger. This Republic now extends, with a vast breadth across the whole continent. The two great seas of the world wash the one and the other shore. We realize, on a mighty scale, the...
Page 146 - ... passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents. All the laws passed by the legislative assembly and governor shall be submitted to the congress of the United States, and, if disapproved, shall be null and of no effect.
Page 363 - That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law...
Page 196 - I refer to the relation between the two races in the Southern section, which constitutes a vital portion of her social organization. Every portion of the North entertains views and feelings more or less hostile to it.