History of the Republican Party: Embracing Its Origin, Growth and Mission, Together with Appendices of Statistics and Information Required by Enlightened Politicians and Patriotic Citizens |
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... Whig Convention of 1852 - Scott's Defeat Pre- dicted - A New Party Demanded - Its Name Should Be Republican- Reasons ... Whigs Astounded - The Plan of 1852 Again Urged Upon Greeley in 1854 - Letter from Mr. Bovay Containing an Outline of ...
... Whig Convention of 1852 - Scott's Defeat Pre- dicted - A New Party Demanded - Its Name Should Be Republican- Reasons ... Whigs Astounded - The Plan of 1852 Again Urged Upon Greeley in 1854 - Letter from Mr. Bovay Containing an Outline of ...
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... Whigs and Free - Democrats Meet- Mass - Convention at Montpelier on July 13 - Republicanism Formally Espoused -- The ... Whig Ticket Endorsed - A Mongrel Victory - Ohio - Iowa - Maine - Pennsylvania - Other States ... 182 CHAPTER XVIII ...
... Whigs and Free - Democrats Meet- Mass - Convention at Montpelier on July 13 - Republicanism Formally Espoused -- The ... Whig Ticket Endorsed - A Mongrel Victory - Ohio - Iowa - Maine - Pennsylvania - Other States ... 182 CHAPTER XVIII ...
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... Whig member from Virginia , afterward Secretary of the Interior , then stated that he had noticed Mr. Dawson standing in front of the clerk's desk ; that from his appearance , he apprehended an intention of violence , but lost sight of ...
... Whig member from Virginia , afterward Secretary of the Interior , then stated that he had noticed Mr. Dawson standing in front of the clerk's desk ; that from his appearance , he apprehended an intention of violence , but lost sight of ...
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... 6 , 1820 , either protecting , establishing , prohibiting or abolishing slavery . • Whigs in Italics , Democrats in Roman and Free - Soilers in SMALL CAPI- TALS . IOWA - Aug . C. Dodge , Geo . W. HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY . 83.
... 6 , 1820 , either protecting , establishing , prohibiting or abolishing slavery . • Whigs in Italics , Democrats in Roman and Free - Soilers in SMALL CAPI- TALS . IOWA - Aug . C. Dodge , Geo . W. HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY . 83.
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... Whigs , two Free- Soilers and five Democrats . The ten absentees consisted of five Whigs , four Democrats and Robert Toombs . In the House the bill met with such able and determined opposition that for some weeks the lovers of freedom ...
... Whigs , two Free- Soilers and five Democrats . The ten absentees consisted of five Whigs , four Democrats and Robert Toombs . In the House the bill met with such able and determined opposition that for some weeks the lovers of freedom ...
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Page 263 - Resolved, 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 265 - It follows from these views that no State, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union,— that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void...
Page 269 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North, or on yours of the South, that truth and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 108 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations ; and so far inferior that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect, and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 265 - 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; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 268 - Constitution and the law for the suppression of the foreign slave trade, are each as well enforced, perhaps, as any law can ever be in a community where the moral sense of the people imperfectly supports the law itself. The great...
Page 177 - I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just ; that his justice cannot sleep forever ; that considering numbers, nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events ; that it may become probable by supernatural interference ! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest.
Page 268 - ... if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 535 - States by positive legislation prohibiting its existence or extension therein; that we deny the authority of Congress, of a Territorial legislature, of any individual or association of individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States while the present Constitution shall be maintained.
Page 263 - 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,