Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science: Extra volumes, Volume 3Johns Hopkins Press, 1887 - History |
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... existence of negro slavery . In colonial days , kings , lords spiritual and temporal , and commons , all united in favoring the slave trade . In Massa- chusetts the Puritan minister might be seen on the Sabbath going to meeting in ...
... existence of negro slavery . In colonial days , kings , lords spiritual and temporal , and commons , all united in favoring the slave trade . In Massa- chusetts the Puritan minister might be seen on the Sabbath going to meeting in ...
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... existence of slavery in a State was left in the discretion of the State itself . If a slave escaped to another State , he was to be returned to his master . Laws were passed by Congress to carry out this provision , and the Supreme ...
... existence of slavery in a State was left in the discretion of the State itself . If a slave escaped to another State , he was to be returned to his master . Laws were passed by Congress to carry out this provision , and the Supreme ...
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... existence in many a household . Not a few excellent people have I known and respected who were born and bred in slavery and had been freed by their masters . In 1831 the State incorporated the Maryland Colonization Society , which ...
... existence in many a household . Not a few excellent people have I known and respected who were born and bred in slavery and had been freed by their masters . In 1831 the State incorporated the Maryland Colonization Society , which ...
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... existence of our National Union , and the perpetuity of popular government , and to redress wrongs already long enough endured . " What the Constitution , which would protect the rights of the South ; but if this failed , that the ...
... existence of our National Union , and the perpetuity of popular government , and to redress wrongs already long enough endured . " What the Constitution , which would protect the rights of the South ; but if this failed , that the ...
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... existence of such an association , but on his way down town having seen the notice of a town meeting to be held at Taylor's Hall , to take into considera- tion the state of affairs , he went to the meeting . Mr. Scott was in the chair ...
... existence of such an association , but on his way down town having seen the notice of a town meeting to be held at Taylor's Hall , to take into considera- tion the state of affairs , he went to the meeting . Mr. Scott was in the chair ...
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Page 136 - It is difficult at this day to realize the state of public opinion in relation to that unfortunate race, which prevailed in the civilized and enlightened portions of the world at the time of the Declaration of Independence, and when the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted.
Page 21 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 22 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will...
Page 21 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 23 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States...
Page 147 - ... the glory of the English law consists in clearly defining the times, the causes, and the extent, when, wherefore, and to what degree the imprisonment of the subject may be lawful. This it is, which induces the absolute necessity of expressing upon every commitment the reason for which it is made: that the court upon an habeas corpus may examine into its validity; and according to the circumstances of the case may discharge, admit to bail, or remand the prisoner.
Page 31 - I deem it proper to say that the first service assigned to the forces hereby called forth will probably be to repossess the forts, places, and property which have been seized from the Union...
Page 20 - That Hon. Abraham Lincoln is our first and only choice for United States Senator to fill the vacancy about to be created by the expiration of Mr. Douglas's term of office.
Page 150 - ... by secretly hurrying him to gaol, where his sufferings are unknown or forgotten, is a less public, a less striking, and therefore a more dangerous engine of arbitrary government. And yet sometimes, when the state is in real danger, even this may be a necessary measure. But the happiness of our constitution is, that it is not left- to the executive power to determine when the danger of the state is so great, as to render this measure expedient : for...
Page 136 - ... so far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; 19 Howard and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced p.«".