The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to the Revolt of the Southern States |
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... held in bondage , if freedom were consistent with his welfare . As it respected the negroes in this country , the whole question at the North turned upon that point ; but practically , it was one with which the people of the free States ...
... held in bondage , if freedom were consistent with his welfare . As it respected the negroes in this country , the whole question at the North turned upon that point ; but practically , it was one with which the people of the free States ...
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... held persons of their own race as slaves . To the whole South , at least , the tender mercies which would disturb this state of things seemed cruel ; but their people chiefly resented any such in- terference , because it was unjust to ...
... held persons of their own race as slaves . To the whole South , at least , the tender mercies which would disturb this state of things seemed cruel ; but their people chiefly resented any such in- terference , because it was unjust to ...
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... held in every State of the Union ex- cept Massachusetts , though insignificant in numbers at the North compared with those at the South . The rights of the smaller body of owners in one part of the country were as clear as those of the ...
... held in every State of the Union ex- cept Massachusetts , though insignificant in numbers at the North compared with those at the South . The rights of the smaller body of owners in one part of the country were as clear as those of the ...
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... held under the jurisdiction of Virginia amounted to not far from two hundred and fifty thousand . ' The inference , there- 1 Slaves held in Virginia in 1790 293,427 . fore , is inevitable , that negroes were not contemplated.
... held under the jurisdiction of Virginia amounted to not far from two hundred and fifty thousand . ' The inference , there- 1 Slaves held in Virginia in 1790 293,427 . fore , is inevitable , that negroes were not contemplated.
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... held slaves and those who held none . Slavery existed at the formation of the Union in every State but one . Slavery was then universally held to be exclusively under the control of State jurisdiction . The National Leg- islature was ...
... held slaves and those who held none . Slavery existed at the formation of the Union in every State but one . Slavery was then universally held to be exclusively under the control of State jurisdiction . The National Leg- islature was ...
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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...