The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1856-1859. Buchanan's election-End of 35th Congress. 1889Callaghan, 1889 - Constitutional history |
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... opinion , in order that they might gain a stronger foot- hold in the doubtful states , Buchanan would have gladly lent them a friendly hand to help them to a cautious policy of reconciliation . But how if the slavocracy drew the ...
... opinion , in order that they might gain a stronger foot- hold in the doubtful states , Buchanan would have gladly lent them a friendly hand to help them to a cautious policy of reconciliation . But how if the slavocracy drew the ...
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... opinions on the question , when the decision by the majority was to be made . He explained that he had always ... opinion that it might turn its attention to questions of " more pressing and practical importance . " This was sheer ...
... opinions on the question , when the decision by the majority was to be made . He explained that he had always ... opinion that it might turn its attention to questions of " more pressing and practical importance . " This was sheer ...
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... opinion of its competency as Buchanan had , if the expectation of the latter was to be fulfilled that the court would render an opinion containing a decision re- specting the principle , and which , on that account , could claim to be a ...
... opinion of its competency as Buchanan had , if the expectation of the latter was to be fulfilled that the court would render an opinion containing a decision re- specting the principle , and which , on that account , could claim to be a ...
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... opinion had in questions relating to the organization of a judiciary as well as the little under- standing it had of them , made the realization of their wishes in that direction easy . By the law of March 3 , 1837 , the number of ...
... opinion had in questions relating to the organization of a judiciary as well as the little under- standing it had of them , made the realization of their wishes in that direction easy . By the law of March 3 , 1837 , the number of ...
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... opinion that the question would not be met by the court , and numbers are still of that way of thinking . . If the court is to take a political bias , and to give a political decision , then let us by all means have it distinctly and ...
... opinion that the question would not be met by the court , and numbers are still of that way of thinking . . If the court is to take a political bias , and to give a political decision , then let us by all means have it distinctly and ...
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Page 284 - We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 284 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." 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. 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...
Page 278 - What then ? Free them all, and keep them among us as underlings ? Is it quite certain that this betters their condition ? I think I would not hold one in slavery at any rate, yet the point is not clear enough for me to denounce people upon. What next? Free them, and make them politically and socially our equals.
Page 266 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Page 1 - President, when the mariner has been tossed, for many days, in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Page 293 - Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature; and if the people are opposed to slavery they will elect representatives to that body who will by unfriendly legislation effectually prevent the introduction of it into their midst.
Page 292 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution?
Page 89 - They shall have no power to prevent emigrants to the State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States or Territories, so long as any person of the same age or description shall be continued in slavery by the laws of this State...
Page 292 - It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere, unless it is supported by local police regulations.
Page 309 - I can account you no better than the enemies thereof: for, in this case there is no neutrality; he, that is not for me, is against me ; and he, that doth not bestir himself to gather with me, even while he stands still scattereth abroad.