History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America, Volume 2J. R. Osgood, 1874 - Antislavery movements |
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... spirit and purpose . Professing to believe it vitally important to organize govern- ments in New Mexico and California ; it had amended an appro- priation bill for that purpose . But the House insisting , the Senate rejected its ...
... spirit and purpose . Professing to believe it vitally important to organize govern- ments in New Mexico and California ; it had amended an appro- priation bill for that purpose . But the House insisting , the Senate rejected its ...
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... spirit of compromise had departed , the days of the confederacy were numbered , and that it was bet- ter to separate peaceably than to stain the battle - fields of the Revolution with the blood of civil war . At the close of Mr. Davis's ...
... spirit of compromise had departed , the days of the confederacy were numbered , and that it was bet- ter to separate peaceably than to stain the battle - fields of the Revolution with the blood of civil war . At the close of Mr. Davis's ...
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... spirit as in 1820 ; and he desired to know if it was so tendered . Mr. Douglas replied that , speaking for himself , he could say it was so offered . The amendment was agreed to , and the bill passed by eleven majority . The House ...
... spirit as in 1820 ; and he desired to know if it was so tendered . Mr. Douglas replied that , speaking for himself , he could say it was so offered . The amendment was agreed to , and the bill passed by eleven majority . The House ...
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... spirit and ready to make sacrifices of time , money , and ease for the good of the slave . Among them was John Jay , a gentleman of ability , culture , social position , and wealth , who inherited not only the name but the sense of ...
... spirit and ready to make sacrifices of time , money , and ease for the good of the slave . Among them was John Jay , a gentleman of ability , culture , social position , and wealth , who inherited not only the name but the sense of ...
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... spirit of justice and freedom would be dead when an injury done to the least individual should cease to be felt as a wrong done to the whole ; that the abducting of a man in the streets of Boston should be felt as an alarming menace ...
... spirit of justice and freedom would be dead when an injury done to the least individual should cease to be felt as a wrong done to the whole ; that the abducting of a man in the streets of Boston should be felt as an alarming menace ...
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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.