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... Respect . - Mr . Ben- ton attempts to inveigle him into a false Position in regard to the Meas- ure of admitting California , and is for a time successful . — Mr . Clay's Programme of Adjustment , and the " five bleeding Wounds ...
... Respect . - Mr . Ben- ton attempts to inveigle him into a false Position in regard to the Meas- ure of admitting California , and is for a time successful . — Mr . Clay's Programme of Adjustment , and the " five bleeding Wounds ...
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... respect an honest and impartial account of all the exciting and lamentable oc- currences which have had their progress on this conti- nent , and in the bosom of our own country , during the last four years . Various and conflicting ...
... respect an honest and impartial account of all the exciting and lamentable oc- currences which have had their progress on this conti- nent , and in the bosom of our own country , during the last four years . Various and conflicting ...
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... respect , scenes which the powers of a Livy or a Tacitus would have been scarcely able to depicture , and of a nature well calculated to discompose even the philosophic serenity of a Gibbon or a Hume . With such views as these , and ...
... respect , scenes which the powers of a Livy or a Tacitus would have been scarcely able to depicture , and of a nature well calculated to discompose even the philosophic serenity of a Gibbon or a Hume . With such views as these , and ...
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... respecting our institutions and the government of the country , those differences never interrupted our personal and social in- tercourse . I have been present at most of the distin- guished instances of the exhibition of his talents in ...
... respecting our institutions and the government of the country , those differences never interrupted our personal and social in- tercourse . I have been present at most of the distin- guished instances of the exhibition of his talents in ...
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... respect- ful to others , no man carried himself with greater deco- rum , no man with superior dignity . I think there is not one of us , when he last addressed us from his seat in the Senate , his form still erect , with a voice by no ...
... respect- ful to others , no man carried himself with greater deco- rum , no man with superior dignity . I think there is not one of us , when he last addressed us from his seat in the Senate , his form still erect , with a voice by no ...
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Page 163 - 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 push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 211 - I take the official oath to-day with no mental reservations and with no purpose to construe the Constitution or laws by any hypercritical rules. And while I do not choose now to specify particular acts of Congress as proper to be enforced, I do suggest that it will be much safer for all, both in official and private stations...
Page 155 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism —Polygamy and Slavery.
Page 211 - It is scarcely questioned that this provision was intended by those who made it for the reclaiming of what we call fugitive slaves: and the intention of the lawgiver is the law. All members of Congress swear their support to the whole Constitution — to this provision as much as to any other. To the proposition, then, that slaves whose cases come within the terms of this clause "shall be delivered up
Page 22 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the states; it remaining with the several states alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Page 102 - The use of such a prohibition would be idle, as it respects any effect it would have upon the territory ; and I would not take pains to reaffirm an ordinance of nature, nor to re-enact the will of God.
Page 16 - Africa, was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue it.
Page 199 - 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 193 - Why is it, then, that discontent now so extensively prevails, and the Union of the States, which is the source of all these blessings, is threatened with destruction? The long-continued and intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern States...
Page viii - My honorable friend from Kentucky has spoken in just terms of his colloquial talents. They certainly were singular and eminent. There was a charm in his conversation not often found. He delighted, especially, in conversation and intercourse with young men. I suppose that there has been no man among us who had more winning manners, in such an intercourse and such conversation, with men comparatively young, than Mr. Calhoun.
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The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction James Alex Baggett Limited preview - 2004 |