American Orations: V. The anti-slavery struggle (continued) VI. SecessionAlexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896 - Speeches, addresses, etc., American |
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... parties of the country , in their national con- ventions , had announced that slavery agitation was at an end , and that henceforth that subject was not to be discussed in Congress or out of Congress . The President , in his annual mes ...
... parties of the country , in their national con- ventions , had announced that slavery agitation was at an end , and that henceforth that subject was not to be discussed in Congress or out of Congress . The President , in his annual mes ...
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... party in the country . Our number was small in Congress . By some we were regarded as visionaries - by some as factionists ; while almost all agreed in pro- nouncing us mistaken . And so , sir , the country was at peace . As the eye ...
... party in the country . Our number was small in Congress . By some we were regarded as visionaries - by some as factionists ; while almost all agreed in pro- nouncing us mistaken . And so , sir , the country was at peace . As the eye ...
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... parties are at rest . No great question so thoroughly possesses the public mind as this of slavery . This discussion will hasten the inevitable reorganization of parties upon the new issues which our circum- stances suggest . It will ...
... parties are at rest . No great question so thoroughly possesses the public mind as this of slavery . This discussion will hasten the inevitable reorganization of parties upon the new issues which our circum- stances suggest . It will ...
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... parties of the country stood solemnly pledged before the world to adhere to the compromise measures of 1850 , “ in principle and substance . " A large major- ity of the Senate - indeed , every member of the body , I believe , except the ...
... parties of the country stood solemnly pledged before the world to adhere to the compromise measures of 1850 , “ in principle and substance . " A large major- ity of the Senate - indeed , every member of the body , I believe , except the ...
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... party and a majority of the Democratic party shall have voted for it— when each of these propositions shall be dem- onstrated by the vote this night on the final passage of the bill , I shall be willing to submit the question to the ...
... party and a majority of the Democratic party shall have voted for it— when each of these propositions shall be dem- onstrated by the vote this night on the final passage of the bill , I shall be willing to submit the question to the ...
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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 168 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
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 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 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 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 372 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
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.
Page 22 - That the Constitution, and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Kansas as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 28 - Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall hereafter be introduced into this state, otherwise than for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; nor shall any male person arrived at the age of twenty-one years, nor female person arrived at the age of eighteen years, be held to serve . any person as a servant, under any indenture hereafter made, unless...