The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to the Revolt of the Southern States |
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... Majority in favor of it . - Memorials to Congress , in opposi- tion to its Passage - one from three thousand and fifty Clergymen of New England.- Effect of this Clerical Movement upon the Public Mind . - Final Passage of the Bill by the ...
... Majority in favor of it . - Memorials to Congress , in opposi- tion to its Passage - one from three thousand and fifty Clergymen of New England.- Effect of this Clerical Movement upon the Public Mind . - Final Passage of the Bill by the ...
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... Majority in the Senate , and the Control of the House . - The majority of the Republicans in the North opposed to all Violent Measures , besides the strong Demo- cratic and Conservative Strength in that Quarter . - The Majority at the ...
... Majority in the Senate , and the Control of the House . - The majority of the Republicans in the North opposed to all Violent Measures , besides the strong Demo- cratic and Conservative Strength in that Quarter . - The Majority at the ...
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... Majority of One , Mr. Seward not voting . - The two - thirds Vote necessary to give them Effect could not have been obtained , had all the Southern Senators been present . - Mr . Douglas's Statement that many of the Republican Leaders ...
... Majority of One , Mr. Seward not voting . - The two - thirds Vote necessary to give them Effect could not have been obtained , had all the Southern Senators been present . - Mr . Douglas's Statement that many of the Republican Leaders ...
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... majority at the North , before the war began , that slavery , in itself considered , was neither right nor wrong . It was a question of policy and of law , not of morals . Probably , most would neither have desired to hold , nor to see ...
... majority at the North , before the war began , that slavery , in itself considered , was neither right nor wrong . It was a question of policy and of law , not of morals . Probably , most would neither have desired to hold , nor to see ...
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... majority of mankind are by no means qualified to exercise any great responsibility of con- trol over others , even when that control is limited and re- strained by law , as this soon came to be , by all reasonable requirements , in ...
... majority of mankind are by no means qualified to exercise any great responsibility of con- trol over others , even when that control is limited and re- strained by law , as this soon came to be , by all reasonable requirements , in ...
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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...