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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... held as the ' agent ' of the respective States . Hence it was that Lord Lyons , about two years ago , remonstrated with Mr. Seward in regard to some violations of the Constitution , the power of attorney , ' under which authority the ...
... held as the ' agent ' of the respective States . Hence it was that Lord Lyons , about two years ago , remonstrated with Mr. Seward in regard to some violations of the Constitution , the power of attorney , ' under which authority the ...
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... held and crime punished under State laws ; no person can be a citizen of two States at the same time . Any of the States can have an established church , as was the case in Virginia for many years after she acceded to the Constitu- tion ...
... held and crime punished under State laws ; no person can be a citizen of two States at the same time . Any of the States can have an established church , as was the case in Virginia for many years after she acceded to the Constitu- tion ...
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... held together by the power of a large military force . Mr. Madison , in his inaugural address , declared the duties of the Federal Government to be : to support the Con- stitution , which is the cement of the Union , as well as in its ...
... held together by the power of a large military force . Mr. Madison , in his inaugural address , declared the duties of the Federal Government to be : to support the Con- stitution , which is the cement of the Union , as well as in its ...
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... held together by constraint . Then will be the time for reverting to the precedent which occurred at the formation and adoption of the Constitution to form a more perfect Union , by dissolving that which could no longer bind , and to ...
... held together by constraint . Then will be the time for reverting to the precedent which occurred at the formation and adoption of the Constitution to form a more perfect Union , by dissolving that which could no longer bind , and to ...
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... his Puritan ancestors , who held ' that the earth was the inheritance of the saints , and that they were the saints . ' He had the Holy Scriptures read by the clerk of the House , to prove W. H. GREGORY , ESQ . , M.P. lvii.
... his Puritan ancestors , who held ' that the earth was the inheritance of the saints , and that they were the saints . ' He had the Holy Scriptures read by the clerk of the House , to prove W. H. GREGORY , ESQ . , M.P. lvii.
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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.