The Political History of the United States of America, During the Great Rebellion: Including a Classified Summary of the Legislation of the Second Session of the Thirty-sixth Congress, the Three Sessions of the Thirty-seventh Congress, the First Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress, with the Votes Thereon, and the Important Executive, Judicial, and Politico-military Facts of that Eventful Period; Together with the Organization, Legislation, and General Proceedings of the Rebel Administration; and an Appendix Containing the Principal Political Facts of the Campaign of 1864, a Chapter on the Church and the Rebellion, and the Proceedings of the Second Session of the Thirty-eighth Congress |
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... person for the reason that he is claimed as a fugitive slave ; provides that no officer or citizen shall aid or assist in the removal from the State of any person claimed as a fugitive slave ; provides a penalty of one thousand dollars ...
... person for the reason that he is claimed as a fugitive slave ; provides that no officer or citizen shall aid or assist in the removal from the State of any person claimed as a fugitive slave ; provides a penalty of one thousand dollars ...
Page 45
... Persons holding office under this State not to issue process for the arrest of alleged fugitives , nor to serve the ... persons , with intent to procure or to aid or assist in procuring the forcible removal of such free person from this ...
... Persons holding office under this State not to issue process for the arrest of alleged fugitives , nor to serve the ... persons , with intent to procure or to aid or assist in procuring the forcible removal of such free person from this ...
Page 46
... persons arrested as fugitive slaves ; but in the fourth edition of the laws of the State , as prepared and pub - in either case , he shall be deemed guilty of lished by Hon . HIRAM DENIO , at present Chief Justice of the Court of ...
... persons arrested as fugitive slaves ; but in the fourth edition of the laws of the State , as prepared and pub - in either case , he shall be deemed guilty of lished by Hon . HIRAM DENIO , at present Chief Justice of the Court of ...
Page 63
... persons held to service or involuntary servitude , into any State , Territory , or place within the United States , from any place or country beyond the limits of the United States or Territories thereof , is forever pro- hibited . ART ...
... persons held to service or involuntary servitude , into any State , Territory , or place within the United States , from any place or country beyond the limits of the United States or Territories thereof , is forever pro- hibited . ART ...
Page 66
... persons committing crimes against the rights of those who hold persons to service or labor in one State , and fleeing to another , shall be delivered up in the same manner as persons committing other crimes ; and the laws of the State ...
... persons committing crimes against the rights of those who hold persons to service or labor in one State , and fleeing to another , shall be delivered up in the same manner as persons committing other crimes ; and the laws of the State ...
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Page 231 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free...
Page 109 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that 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 91 - That the Constitution, and all Laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Nebraska as elsewhere within the United States...
Page 226 - We, even we here, hold the power and bear the responsibility. In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth. Other means may succeed; this could not fail. The way is plain, peaceful, generous, just — a way which if followed the world will forever applaud and God must forever bless.
Page 110 - 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 292 and that justice will surely prevail by the judgment of this great tribunal of the American people.
Page 109 - Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you.
Page 137 - Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Page 127 - And this issue embraces more than the fate of these United States. It presents to the whole family of man the question whether a constitutional republic or democracy — a government of the people by the same people — can or cannot maintain its territorial integrity against its own domestic foes.
Page 180 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 232 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.