American slavery: repr. of an article [by N.W. Senior, entitled Slavery in the United States] on 'Uncle Tom's cabin' [by H.E.B. Stowe] and of mr. Sumner's speech of the 19th and 20th of May, 1856. With a notice of the events which followed that speech |
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... Congress to abolish the slave trade within twenty years , and thereby impliedly giving it power to do so at the end of that period . This satisfied the Northern capitalists , to whom twenty years seemed an eternity . It pleased the ...
... Congress to abolish the slave trade within twenty years , and thereby impliedly giving it power to do so at the end of that period . This satisfied the Northern capitalists , to whom twenty years seemed an eternity . It pleased the ...
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... Congress passed in the year 1793 , which attempted to define the procedure by which it was to be enforced , produced much effect . The surrender was to be made through the instrumentality of the State in which the fugitive was found ...
... Congress passed in the year 1793 , which attempted to define the procedure by which it was to be enforced , produced much effect . The surrender was to be made through the instrumentality of the State in which the fugitive was found ...
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... called the Missouri compro- mise , by which Missouri was received as a slave State , but the existing Congress affected to bind their suc- cessors by enacting that in future slavery should not be SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES . 13.
... called the Missouri compro- mise , by which Missouri was received as a slave State , but the existing Congress affected to bind their suc- cessors by enacting that in future slavery should not be SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES . 13.
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... Congress cannot make amendments in it without the consent of two - thirds of both houses , and cannot call a convention to make them without the concurrence of the legislatures of two - thirds of the States , and when made they require ...
... Congress cannot make amendments in it without the consent of two - thirds of both houses , and cannot call a convention to make them without the concurrence of the legislatures of two - thirds of the States , and when made they require ...
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... Congress , and the privilege of determining the character of its institutions accorded to those who should become re- sidents of its soil . Attracted by this opening for industry and enterprise , large numbers of persons from all ...
... Congress , and the privilege of determining the character of its institutions accorded to those who should become re- sidents of its soil . Attracted by this opening for industry and enterprise , large numbers of persons from all ...
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