Democratic Speeches on Kansas: Pamphlet Vol.], Volume 11856 - United States |
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... whole Northwest ? Why was not the Union then dissolved ? Ifit is a cause in 1856 for a dissolution of the Union to exclude Slavery from Kansas and Nebraska , was it not a cause in 1789 , when Sla- very was excluded from the Territory ...
... whole Northwest ? Why was not the Union then dissolved ? Ifit is a cause in 1856 for a dissolution of the Union to exclude Slavery from Kansas and Nebraska , was it not a cause in 1789 , when Sla- very was excluded from the Territory ...
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... whole country , North and South . These measures for the exclu- sion of slavery were adopted without a division of opinion . I acknowledge that there was a contro- versy as to the admission of Missouri ; but that controversy did not ...
... whole country , North and South . These measures for the exclu- sion of slavery were adopted without a division of opinion . I acknowledge that there was a contro- versy as to the admission of Missouri ; but that controversy did not ...
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... whole ? This success is to be accounted for not by attributing to us any narrow , been the result of this first opening of free Terri - sectional desire to interfere with the condition of tories . The South , with the Democracy , had ...
... whole ? This success is to be accounted for not by attributing to us any narrow , been the result of this first opening of free Terri - sectional desire to interfere with the condition of tories . The South , with the Democracy , had ...
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... whole country will be inundated with one black wave covering its whole extent , with a few white faces here and there floating on the surface . The master has no capital but what is vested in human flesh ; the father , instead of being ...
... whole country will be inundated with one black wave covering its whole extent , with a few white faces here and there floating on the surface . The master has no capital but what is vested in human flesh ; the father , instead of being ...
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... whole doctrine clearly stated . The people of a Territory have no inherent rights to pass laws except in accordance with the charter granted them by Congress . This was the doc- trine of the fathers of the Republic ; and I rejoice ...
... whole doctrine clearly stated . The people of a Territory have no inherent rights to pass laws except in accordance with the charter granted them by Congress . This was the doc- trine of the fathers of the Republic ; and I rejoice ...
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Popular passages
Page 4 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy, and slavery.
Page 8 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 15 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Page 9 - March 6, 1820, be, and the same is hereby, declared to extend to the Pacific Ocean ; and the said eighth section, together with the compromise therein effected, is hereby revived and declared to be in full force and binding for the future organization of the Territories of the United States, in the same sense and with the same understanding with which it was originally adopted.
Page 5 - Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have professed themselves citizens of Virginia, shall have their possessions and titles confirmed to them, and be protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties.
Page 15 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God...
Page 7 - 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 6 - No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud.
Page 30 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 8 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be,. and is hereby, forever prohibited...