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... Congress Fruitless Efforts for a Compromise NOTE . Acts passed by the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States during its first Session CHAPTER IV . COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR . Page 49 • 50 52 53 54 • 56 • 59 ibid 62 Accession of ...
... Congress Fruitless Efforts for a Compromise NOTE . Acts passed by the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States during its first Session CHAPTER IV . COMMENCEMENT OF THE WAR . Page 49 • 50 52 53 54 • 56 • 59 ibid 62 Accession of ...
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... Congress and to the Presidential Chair which periodi- cally agitate the country from end to end , -contribute to this result . The general government of the Union is by these made a matter of interest to every American , and of no ...
... Congress and to the Presidential Chair which periodi- cally agitate the country from end to end , -contribute to this result . The general government of the Union is by these made a matter of interest to every American , and of no ...
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... but fruitless efforts between 1803 and 1807 to obtain from Congress a temporary suspension of the prohibition of slavery within that Territory . of the people were almost exclusively agricultural and Chap . 8 SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH .
... but fruitless efforts between 1803 and 1807 to obtain from Congress a temporary suspension of the prohibition of slavery within that Territory . of the people were almost exclusively agricultural and Chap . 8 SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH .
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... Congress . To ward off not only every attack , but every approach , of the anti - slavery sentiment , to protect , and if possible increase , the political influence of the slave - holding interest in the public councils , and to ...
... Congress . To ward off not only every attack , but every approach , of the anti - slavery sentiment , to protect , and if possible increase , the political influence of the slave - holding interest in the public councils , and to ...
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... Congress no control over it , placed it beyond the reach of interference , and no attempt to meddle with it unconstitutionally would have been countenanced by public opinion . Questions might , how- ever , arise , strictly within the ...
... Congress no control over it , placed it beyond the reach of interference , and no attempt to meddle with it unconstitutionally would have been countenanced by public opinion . Questions might , how- ever , arise , strictly within the ...
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Page 2 - Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 71 - 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 ; and in every event the utmost care will be observed, consistently with the objects aforesaid, to avoid any devastation, any destruction of, or interference with, property, or any disturbance of peaceful citizens of any part of the country...
Page 24 - 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...
Page 93 - The true test of its existence, as found in the writings of the sages of the common law, may be thus summarily stated; when the regular course of justice is interrupted by revolt, rebellion, or insurrection, so that the courts of justice cannot be kept open, civil war exists, and hostilities may be prosecuted on the same footing as if those opposing the government were foreign enemies invading the land.
Page 266 - ... in either of which cases the authorities of the port or of the nearest port (as the case may be) shall require her to put to sea as soon as possible after the expiration of such period of twenty-four hours...
Page 17 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 37 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 135 - ... with the advice of our privy council, to issue this our royal proclamation...
Page 61 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 95 - ex majore cautela" and in anticipation of such astute objections, passing an act "approving, legalizing, and making valid all the acts, proclamations, and orders of the President, &c., as if they had been issued and done under the previous express authority and direction of the Congress of the United States.