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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... solely to the natural want of rest , after the long and vio- lent struggle . The two parties were weighed down by a certain feeling of insecurity . The outlook into the near future was still so involved in obscurity that there was.
... solely to the natural want of rest , after the long and vio- lent struggle . The two parties were weighed down by a certain feeling of insecurity . The outlook into the near future was still so involved in obscurity that there was.
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... struggle would begin anew , but only how , and from what side , the impulse to its outbreak would come . So far as the latter point is concerned the decision lay entirely with the republicans , to the extent that an op- position party ...
... struggle would begin anew , but only how , and from what side , the impulse to its outbreak would come . So far as the latter point is concerned the decision lay entirely with the republicans , to the extent that an op- position party ...
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... struggle between slavery and freedom had been terminated by the elec- toral campaign was based only on this , it evidently did not deserve to be likened even to a soap - bubble . That " happy conception " of congress had already become ...
... struggle between slavery and freedom had been terminated by the elec- toral campaign was based only on this , it evidently did not deserve to be likened even to a soap - bubble . That " happy conception " of congress had already become ...
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... struggles , but they had been fought on different ground and settled in a different way . The doctrines now rep- resented by the president were an achievement of recent years , and they had furnished a basis for the transforma- tion and ...
... struggles , but they had been fought on different ground and settled in a different way . The doctrines now rep- resented by the president were an achievement of recent years , and they had furnished a basis for the transforma- tion and ...
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... struggle and of the nullification experiment by South Carolina had swept over the country . The abolitionists , under the war - standard of the unbending and inviolable principle , had entered on the scene , and the slavocracy had ...
... struggle and of the nullification experiment by South Carolina had swept over the country . The abolitionists , under the war - standard of the unbending and inviolable principle , had entered on the scene , and the slavocracy had ...
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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.