The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to the Revolt of the Southern States |
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... existing shall think proper to admit , shall not be prohibited by the Congress , prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight , but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation , not exceeding ten dollars for each per- son ...
... existing shall think proper to admit , shall not be prohibited by the Congress , prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight , but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation , not exceeding ten dollars for each per- son ...
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... existing shall think proper to admit , shall not be prohibited by the Legislature [ meaning Congress ] prior to the year 1800 ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such migration or importation at a rate not exceeding the average of the ...
... existing shall think proper to admit , shall not be prohibited by the Legislature [ meaning Congress ] prior to the year 1800 ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such migration or importation at a rate not exceeding the average of the ...
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... existing fact , and uncontrollable , except at the option of those with whom were the legal right and the special concern . The other was a point in which the masters of slaves , and those who declined to assume any such mastery , had ...
... existing fact , and uncontrollable , except at the option of those with whom were the legal right and the special concern . The other was a point in which the masters of slaves , and those who declined to assume any such mastery , had ...
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... existing upon it , and long acquiescence in the claims of the inhabitants , without any question raised in regard to it . New interests connected with the domestic system had grown up there , extending into every one of the slave States ...
... existing upon it , and long acquiescence in the claims of the inhabitants , without any question raised in regard to it . New interests connected with the domestic system had grown up there , extending into every one of the slave States ...
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... existing institution . It was , nevertheless , a struggle on the part of the North to impose restrictions upon that enlargement of political power , which , it feared , the South might gain by increasing the number of States allied to ...
... existing institution . It was , nevertheless , a struggle on the part of the North to impose restrictions upon that enlargement of political power , which , it feared , the South might gain by increasing the number of States allied to ...
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Page 189 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 358 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Page 189 - ... a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...
Page 184 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
Page 24 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Page 189 - One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 105 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Page 440 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Page 117 - No petition, memorial, resolution, or other paper, praying the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia, or any State or Territory, or the Slave Trade between the States or Territories of The United States in which it now exists, shall be received by this House, or entertained in any way whatever, be, and the same is hereby, rescinded.
Page 275 - Congress, the act known as the Fugitive Slave law included, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States as a settlement in principle and substance of the dangerous and exciting questions which they embrace...