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... regard to African Slavery . — Tes- timony of Mr. Greeley on this Point . - Kindly social and commercial Intercourse between the Colonists North and South . Their united Defense of the infant American Settlements against Indian Violence ...
... regard to African Slavery . — Tes- timony of Mr. Greeley on this Point . - Kindly social and commercial Intercourse between the Colonists North and South . Their united Defense of the infant American Settlements against Indian Violence ...
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... regard to African Slavery . - Action of Congress upon Abolition Petitions in 1790. - Congressional Resolution on the Subject of non - interference with Slavery in the States by the general Govern- ment for many Years faithfully observed ...
... regard to African Slavery . - Action of Congress upon Abolition Petitions in 1790. - Congressional Resolution on the Subject of non - interference with Slavery in the States by the general Govern- ment for many Years faithfully observed ...
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... regard to the Instrumentalities employed by him to carry that Policy into Operation . - Intense Alarm awakened among Patri- ots as to the Fate of the Country . Mr. Clay leaves his own Home , and comes to Washington upon a Mission of ...
... regard to the Instrumentalities employed by him to carry that Policy into Operation . - Intense Alarm awakened among Patri- ots as to the Fate of the Country . Mr. Clay leaves his own Home , and comes to Washington upon a Mission of ...
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... regard even to distant nations , how much more forci- bly must the statement just made be found applicable to the different parts of our own country , within whose ter- ritorial limits all these momentous events have been tak- ing place ...
... regard even to distant nations , how much more forci- bly must the statement just made be found applicable to the different parts of our own country , within whose ter- ritorial limits all these momentous events have been tak- ing place ...
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... regard both to general theories of government , and in reference to their action , in and out of Congress , upon several of the most exciting questions which have ever disturbed the public repose . Special evidences in proof of what has ...
... regard both to general theories of government , and in reference to their action , in and out of Congress , upon several of the most exciting questions which have ever disturbed the public repose . Special evidences in proof of what has ...
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Page 326 - 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 339 - They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them. Is it possible, then, to make that intercourse more advantageous or more satisfactory after separation than before ? Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends...
Page 329 - If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty.
Page 327 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves: and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution — to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up
Page 249 - 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 the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 315 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 327 - I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations...
Page 329 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Page 328 - I trust this will not be regarded as a menace, but only as the declared purpose of the Union that it will constitutionally defend and maintain itself.
Page 42 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the states; it remaining with the several states alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.