History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, Volume 2J. R. Osgood, 1874 - Antislavery movements |
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... forces westward of the river Nueces , which was done before annexation was accomplished , President Polk put in peril the peace and the good name of the country . In his Annual Message of December of that year he stated that American ...
... forces westward of the river Nueces , which was done before annexation was accomplished , President Polk put in peril the peace and the good name of the country . In his Annual Message of December of that year he stated that American ...
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... forces , to return to the Nueces , the western boundary of Texas proper , " while , " he said , " our gov- ernments are regulating pending questions relative to Texas . " He was not required to withdraw his armies into the territories ...
... forces , to return to the Nueces , the western boundary of Texas proper , " while , " he said , " our gov- ernments are regulating pending questions relative to Texas . " He was not required to withdraw his armies into the territories ...
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... force them to aid in throw- ing a shelter over the administration . " On the 12th the bill was reported to the Senate by Mr. Benton , chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs . Sev- eral amendments and modifications were offered ...
... force them to aid in throw- ing a shelter over the administration . " On the 12th the bill was reported to the Senate by Mr. Benton , chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs . Sev- eral amendments and modifications were offered ...
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... force of this biting sarcasm , there were thou- sands at the North who realized , with infinite regret and cha- grin , that they and the cause of freedom had been wickedly betrayed by this recreant action . The administration of Mr ...
... force of this biting sarcasm , there were thou- sands at the North who realized , with infinite regret and cha- grin , that they and the cause of freedom had been wickedly betrayed by this recreant action . The administration of Mr ...
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... force of both logic and language slavery and its malign and blinding influences , he said if one man in fifty were a slaveholder in that Territory , he would persuade the forty - nine that it was better it should exist there . It was ...
... force of both logic and language slavery and its malign and blinding influences , he said if one man in fifty were a slaveholder in that Territory , he would persuade the forty - nine that it was better it should exist there . It was ...
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Page 528 - Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the Court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void...
Page 570 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Page 526 - They had for more than a century before been regarded as beings of an inferior order, and altogether unfit to associate with the white race, either in social or political relations; and SO far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
Page 71 - Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.
Page 204 - I shall be fully convinced of what I more than suspect already — that he is deeply conscious of being in the wrong ; that he feels the blood of this war, like the blood of Abel, is crying to Heaven against him...
Page 590 - The foregoing articles shall not be construed so as in any way to encourage the overthrow of any State Government or of the General Government of the United States, and look to no dissolution of the Union, but simply to amendment and repeal, and our flag shall be the same that our fathers fought under in the Revolution.
Page 531 - At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, all free native-born inhabitants of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina, though descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those States, but such of them as had the other necessary qualifications possessed the franchise of electors, on equal terms with other citizens.
Page 574 - It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time, and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity, and the other the divine right of kings. It is the same principle in whatever shape it develops itself. It is the same spirit that says, "You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.
Page 468 - I advise you, one and all, to enter every election district in Kansas, in defiance of Reeder and his vile myrmidons, and vote at the point of the bowie-knife and revolver. Neither give nor take quarter, as our cause demands it. It is enough that the slaveholding interest wills it, from which there is no appeal.
Page 464 - Come on, then, gentlemen of the slave States ! Since there is no escaping your challenge, I accept it in behalf of freedom. We will engage in competition for the virgin soil of Kansas, and God give the victory to the side that is stronger in numbers, as it is in the right.