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... manner consistent with justice and the Constitution , there is hope yet of their agreeing in this one thing at least , -namely , in terminating it without arms , either for reunion , or for definitive separa- tion . And some such ...
... manner consistent with justice and the Constitution , there is hope yet of their agreeing in this one thing at least , -namely , in terminating it without arms , either for reunion , or for definitive separa- tion . And some such ...
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... manner as , by giving the key , is meant giving the possession of what is contained in the room whose door that key opens ; as a Scotch farmer , by taking out of his pocket and showing to you a handful of wheat , if you agree to 11.
... manner as , by giving the key , is meant giving the possession of what is contained in the room whose door that key opens ; as a Scotch farmer , by taking out of his pocket and showing to you a handful of wheat , if you agree to 11.
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... manners , as if its words were ambiguous , and its provisions not positive , but uncer- tain , the mere possibility of contradictory interpretations . would reflect no credit upon the tribunal that pronounced it , nor on the government ...
... manners , as if its words were ambiguous , and its provisions not positive , but uncer- tain , the mere possibility of contradictory interpretations . would reflect no credit upon the tribunal that pronounced it , nor on the government ...
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... manner as it is bound to do in their original States respectively . And this right of her citizens she claims and asserts by the Constitution . This , and no other , is therefore the question , the imme- diate cause of secession . Does ...
... manner as it is bound to do in their original States respectively . And this right of her citizens she claims and asserts by the Constitution . This , and no other , is therefore the question , the imme- diate cause of secession . Does ...
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... manner for sons and fathers , for subjects and sovereigns , and for others ; but in the passages mentioned above he speaks to slaves proper . They are clear and positive in the whole context , so that their meaning is unmistakable ; but ...
... manner for sons and fathers , for subjects and sovereigns , and for others ; but in the passages mentioned above he speaks to slaves proper . They are clear and positive in the whole context , so that their meaning is unmistakable ; but ...
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Page 89 - Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual...
Page 89 - And the Articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a congress of the united states, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state.
Page 59 - Resolved, That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, by any particular State, pursuant to the recommendation of Congress ' of the 6th day of September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States...
Page 59 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page 44 - It became solemnly bound to hold and administer the lands ceded, as a common fund for the use and benefit of all the states, and for no other use or purpose whatever.
Page 72 - Alabama was admitted into the Union on the same footing with the original States, with boundaries which were prescribed by Congress. There is no constitutional, conventional or legal provision, which allows them less power over the Indians within their borders, than is possessed by Maine or New York.
Page 2 - In the Clerk's Office of the District Conrt of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Page 18 - We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Pennsylvania and Delaware, believing that the Federal Constitution, in pledging the strength of the whole nation to support slavery, violates the Divine Law, makes war upon human rights, and is grossly inconsistent with republican principles ; that its attempt to unite slavery in one body politic has brought upon the country great and manifold evils, and has fully proved that no such union can exist but by the sacrifice of freedom to the supremacy of slavery...
Page 72 - WHEN IN THE COURSE of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
Page 57 - ... must contain no provision or restriction which would destroy or impair the equality of the proposed state with the original states, or impose any limitation upon its sovereignty which the constitution has not placed on all the states. So far as the organization of a territory may be necessary and proper as a means of carrying into effect the provision of the constitution for the admission of new states...