The Cotton Trade: Its Bearing Upon the Prosperity of Great Britain and Commerce of the American Republics, Considered in Connection with the System of Negro Slavery in the Confederate States |
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... Massachusetts , was the first ' commis- sioner ' sent to Europe to represent the thirteen original One of the arguments used by the Federalists against the acquisition of the Louisiana territory was that the limits of the Confederation ...
... Massachusetts , was the first ' commis- sioner ' sent to Europe to represent the thirteen original One of the arguments used by the Federalists against the acquisition of the Louisiana territory was that the limits of the Confederation ...
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... This being the case , can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war ? Suppose Massachusetts or any large State should refuse , and Congress should attempt to compel them , would they not have influence to procure xxiv LETTER TO.
... This being the case , can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war ? Suppose Massachusetts or any large State should refuse , and Congress should attempt to compel them , would they not have influence to procure xxiv LETTER TO.
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... Massachusetts , Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , North Carolina , South Carolina , and Georgia , do ordain , declare , and establish the ...
... Massachusetts , Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , North Carolina , South Carolina , and Georgia , do ordain , declare , and establish the ...
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... Massachusetts at a very early day advocated secession . Her representatives in Congress in 1789 threatened to break up the Union that had just been formed , if the Federal Capitol were located on the Potomac , and their opposition was ...
... Massachusetts at a very early day advocated secession . Her representatives in Congress in 1789 threatened to break up the Union that had just been formed , if the Federal Capitol were located on the Potomac , and their opposition was ...
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... for purposes of domestic regulation . We spurn the idea that the free , sovereign , and independent State of Massachusetts is reduced to a mere municipal corporation , without power to b 2 W. H. GREGORY , ESQ . , M.P. XXXV.
... for purposes of domestic regulation . We spurn the idea that the free , sovereign , and independent State of Massachusetts is reduced to a mere municipal corporation , without power to b 2 W. H. GREGORY , ESQ . , M.P. XXXV.
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Page 166 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States...
Page 230 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 224 - The importation of negroes of the African race, from any foreign country, other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden, and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.
Page 264 - 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 99 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 203 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Page 250 - No free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person), shall vote for members of the Senate or House of Commons* SECTION 4.
Page 264 - Kansas ; and when admitted as a State or States, the said Territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Page 237 - All territory, places and possessions whatsoever, taken by either party from the other, during the war, or which may be taken after the signing of this treaty, excepting only the islands hereinafter mentioned, shall be restored without delay...
Page 227 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.