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... Slaves , and the Personal Liberty Bill , On Slavery in the Territories , and the Power of Congress thereupon , On the Temporary Government in the Territories , 10 5 CO 3 31 38 . 40 56 Whether a Majority of the Settlers can exclude Slavery ...
... Slaves , and the Personal Liberty Bill , On Slavery in the Territories , and the Power of Congress thereupon , On the Temporary Government in the Territories , 10 5 CO 3 31 38 . 40 56 Whether a Majority of the Settlers can exclude Slavery ...
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... Slavery . It is true , that when some of the slaveholding States had actually dissolved the Union on that account , he denied them the right to secede , which might seem a con- tradiction ; but perhaps , in 1836 , he meant that , even ...
... Slavery . It is true , that when some of the slaveholding States had actually dissolved the Union on that account , he denied them the right to secede , which might seem a con- tradiction ; but perhaps , in 1836 , he meant that , even ...
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... Slavery , Mr. Seward , who was , and perhaps is , considered to be her mouth , will bear me witness . I refer to his speech in the Senate on January 31 , 1861. For though some people of note in his own party would have given Slavery no ...
... Slavery , Mr. Seward , who was , and perhaps is , considered to be her mouth , will bear me witness . I refer to his speech in the Senate on January 31 , 1861. For though some people of note in his own party would have given Slavery no ...
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... Slavery has succeeded in planting in it only twenty- four African slaves , —one slave upon forty - four thousand square miles of territory , -one slave for every one of the twenty - four States ; " and concludes : " This , then , has ...
... Slavery has succeeded in planting in it only twenty- four African slaves , —one slave upon forty - four thousand square miles of territory , -one slave for every one of the twenty - four States ; " and concludes : " This , then , has ...
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... slave territory ; " that " every foot of it is slave territory as much as South Carolina , " that " over a considerable por- tion of it a Slave code , made by a government created by the Congress of the United States , is enforced ...
... slave territory ; " that " every foot of it is slave territory as much as South Carolina , " that " over a considerable por- tion of it a Slave code , made by a government created by the Congress of the United States , is enforced ...
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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...