The Progress and Intelligence of Americans: Proof of Slavery, from the First Chapter of Genesis, as Founded on Organic Law; Progress of Slavery South and South-West, with Free Labor Advancing, Through the Acquistion [sic] of Territory; Advantages Enumerated and Explained1862 - African Americans - 508 pages |
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... votes , they are used as tools ! It is a political game both North and South , to seek offices through appeals to the passions and prejudices of men , rather than to their reasons and judgments . If the people had , in both sections ...
... votes , they are used as tools ! It is a political game both North and South , to seek offices through appeals to the passions and prejudices of men , rather than to their reasons and judgments . If the people had , in both sections ...
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... votes in his precinct , district , or State , or United States ; consequently , no sectional issues could be tried , with any hope of success . No man in such a government should be eligible to office in any capa- city till he is forty ...
... votes in his precinct , district , or State , or United States ; consequently , no sectional issues could be tried , with any hope of success . No man in such a government should be eligible to office in any capa- city till he is forty ...
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... voted against it , and that it would have been carried had all the Southern men voted for it , " or words to that effect . He also complained that certain Senators from the Cotton States had withheld their vote on the Clark Amend- ment ...
... voted against it , and that it would have been carried had all the Southern men voted for it , " or words to that effect . He also complained that certain Senators from the Cotton States had withheld their vote on the Clark Amend- ment ...
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... vote was had on the proposition itself . On the 14th of January they cast a united vote against its consideration , and on the 5th they did the same thing , in order to consider the Pacific Railroad Bill . But the first test vote was ...
... vote was had on the proposition itself . On the 14th of January they cast a united vote against its consideration , and on the 5th they did the same thing , in order to consider the Pacific Railroad Bill . But the first test vote was ...
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... vote on which some six or eight Sen- ators from the Cotton States withheld their votes , and of this I shall speak hereafter . It is true that within a few hours after these pro- ceedings , as though alarmed about the consequences of ...
... vote on which some six or eight Sen- ators from the Cotton States withheld their votes , and of this I shall speak hereafter . It is true that within a few hours after these pro- ceedings , as though alarmed about the consequences of ...
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Page 111 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind : and God saw that it was good.
Page 211 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 110 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 108 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
Page 107 - And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day.
Page 107 - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament, from the waters which were above the firmament : and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 109 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 480 - 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 480 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.