Caucuses of 1860: A History of the National Political Conventions of the Current Presidential Campaign: Being a Complete Record of the Business of All the Conventions; with Sketches of Distinguished Men in Attendance Upon Them, and Descriptions of the Most Characteristic Scenes and Memorable Events |
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... looked quietly at it ; and after he had recognized the Mississippian , remained quiescent . The first voice that rose above the din was that of some frightened delegate , crying aloud " like some strong swimmer in his agony , " emit ...
... looked quietly at it ; and after he had recognized the Mississippian , remained quiescent . The first voice that rose above the din was that of some frightened delegate , crying aloud " like some strong swimmer in his agony , " emit ...
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... looked as if he had fished for a seal and caught a rhinoceros . He gave his address , and said if Tom Cooper would call upon him him , they would take a drink together . Flournoy of Arkansas had a personal explanation , and said he was ...
... looked as if he had fished for a seal and caught a rhinoceros . He gave his address , and said if Tom Cooper would call upon him him , they would take a drink together . Flournoy of Arkansas had a personal explanation , and said he was ...
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... looked blue at this . There were other re- ports afloat that were somewhat exciting . The rabid Douglasites were alarmed at signs of discontent and shakiness in several of the North- western delegations . They said it had been ...
... looked blue at this . There were other re- ports afloat that were somewhat exciting . The rabid Douglasites were alarmed at signs of discontent and shakiness in several of the North- western delegations . They said it had been ...
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... looked for explosion was at hand . The South would not stay in the Convention , even to defeat Douglas , if the double - shuffle platform were adopted . I shall not now trace all the twistings and turnings of the fight . Let it be ...
... looked for explosion was at hand . The South would not stay in the Convention , even to defeat Douglas , if the double - shuffle platform were adopted . I shall not now trace all the twistings and turnings of the fight . Let it be ...
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... looked absolutely frightened . They considered themselves looking upon a spectacle of prodigious significance , and some were muttering with white lips that the hour of revolution was at hand . And there were Neros about , too , who ...
... looked absolutely frightened . They considered themselves looking upon a spectacle of prodigious significance , and some were muttering with white lips that the hour of revolution was at hand . And there were Neros about , too , who ...
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Page 138 - 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 141 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 224 - That the government of a Territory organized by an act of Congress is provisional and temporary, and during its existence all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legislation.
Page 141 - That the new dogma that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States...
Page 203 - Truth crushed to earth will rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers; While error wounded writhes in pain, And dies amid her worshippers.
Page 141 - That, while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country...
Page 44 - Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their nature, when applied to the same...
Page 141 - Congress to take prompt and efficient measures for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic. 10. That in the recent vetoes, by their Federal Governors, of the acts of the Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery in those Territories, we find a practical illustration of the boasted Democratic principle of Non-intervention and Popular Sovereignty embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and a demonstration of the deception and fraud involved therein.
Page 64 - Inasmuch as differences of opinion exist in the democratic party as to the nature and extent of the powers of a territorial legislature, and as to the powers and duties of Congress, under the constitution of the United States, over the institution of slavery within the territories: 2. Resolved, That the democratic party will abide by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on the questions of constitutional law.
Page 54 - Democratic party do hereby pledge themselves to use every means in their power to secure the passage of some bill, to the extent of the constitutional authority of Congress, for the construction of a Pacific railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, at the earliest practicable moment.