Why I Am a Republican: A History of the Republican Party, a Defense of Its Policy, and the Reasons which Justify Its Continuance in Power, with Biographical Sketches of the Republican Candidates |
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... Congress denied to the alleged fugitive the right of trial by jury , and confided to subordinate officers of the courts the authority to decide irrevocably the fate of every person arraigned as a fugitive from slavery . The amalgamation ...
... Congress denied to the alleged fugitive the right of trial by jury , and confided to subordinate officers of the courts the authority to decide irrevocably the fate of every person arraigned as a fugitive from slavery . The amalgamation ...
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... Congress passed penal statutes against the exportation of slaves from the United States , and prohibiting the use of American vessels for the transportation of slaves from one foreign country to another . This legislation satisfied the ...
... Congress passed penal statutes against the exportation of slaves from the United States , and prohibiting the use of American vessels for the transportation of slaves from one foreign country to another . This legislation satisfied the ...
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... , and by that surrender he lost the State of New York and the presidency . The election of Mr. Polk was treated as an endorsement of the scheme , and the outgoing Congress , by a joint THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE AND ITS REPEAL . 15.
... , and by that surrender he lost the State of New York and the presidency . The election of Mr. Polk was treated as an endorsement of the scheme , and the outgoing Congress , by a joint THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE AND ITS REPEAL . 15.
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... Congress , by a joint resolution approved March 1 , 1845 , provided for the annexation of Texas to the United States . The resolution contained a guarantee that States , not exceed- ing five in all , might be formed out of the territory ...
... Congress , by a joint resolution approved March 1 , 1845 , provided for the annexation of Texas to the United States . The resolution contained a guarantee that States , not exceed- ing five in all , might be formed out of the territory ...
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... Congress , and resistance to its admission into the Union was put upon that ground . That position was a pretext . The exclusion of slavery was in fact the real reason . The bill for the admission of California was ap- proved the 9th ...
... Congress , and resistance to its admission into the Union was put upon that ground . That position was a pretext . The exclusion of slavery was in fact the real reason . The bill for the admission of California was ap- proved the 9th ...
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Page 137 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his...
Page 136 - Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with or even before the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding.
Page 136 - Both read the same bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not that we be not judged.
Page 127 - 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 115 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 125 - It follows from these views that no state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void ; and that acts of violence within any state or states against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 134 - Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States, and parts of States, wherein the...
Page 114 - 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.
Page 128 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate ; we cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this.
Page 130 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellowcountrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.