 | Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - Amazon River - 1854 - 234 pages
...much to say in the course of my argument, I will read certain passages : " We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge ; as a criminal...atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region emigrants irom the Old World, and free laborers from our own States, and convert it into a dreary region... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - History - 1854 - 262 pages
...several members of the House of Representatives, denouncing the measure in the strongest terms, " as a gross violation of a sacred pledge; as a criminal...atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region emigrants from the old world, and free laborers from our own states, and to convert it into a dreary... | |
 | Compromise of 1850 - 1854 - 144 pages
...much to say in the course of my argument, I will read certain passages : " We arraign this bill аs a gross violation of a sacred pledge : as a criminal...an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied fegion emigrants from the Old World, and fiee laborers from our own States, and convert it into a dreary... | |
 | 1854 - 136 pages
...passages : " We arraign this hill as a gross violation of a sacrec pledge : as a criminal hetrayal of precious rights ; as part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region emigrants from the Old World and free lahorers from our own States, and convert it intt a dreary region... | |
 | Henry Sheffie Geyer - Kansas - 1856 - 40 pages
...struggle for political supremacy. " We arraign the bill as n gross violation of a sacred pledge ; a-; a criminal betrayal of precious rights : as part and...parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude- from a vast unoccupicd region, immigrants from the OldWorld, and free laborers from our o\vn States, and convert... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - United States - 1859 - 812 pages
...all the unorganized territory of the Union to the ingress of slavery. We arraign this bill as a ^ross violation of a sacred pledge ; as a criminal betrayal...Old World, and free laborers from our own states, and convert it into a dreary region of despotism, inhabited by masters and slaves. Take your maps,... | |
 | James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 556 pages
...much to say in the course of my argument, I will read certain passages : " 'We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge ; as a criminal...atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region emigrants from the Old "World and free laborers from our own states, and convert it into a dreary regiA.... | |
 | Henry Martyn Flint - Legislators - 1860 - 486 pages
...much to say in the course of my argument, I will read certain passages : '• We arraign this bill SB a gross violation of a sacred pledge ; as a criminal...as part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude froma vast unoccupied region emigrants from the Old World, and free laborcra from our own States. and... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...now impends, and we earnestly solicit your prompt attention to it. * * * " We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge ; as a criminal...atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region emigrants from the Old World, and free laborers from our own States, and convert it into a dreary region... | |
 | Joshua Reed Giddings - United States - 1864 - 522 pages
...Giddings and Edward Wade, of the House. The subscribers said in the address, " We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge ; as a criminal betrayal of sacred rights ; as a part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region... | |
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We arraign this bill as a gross violation of a sacred pledge; as a criminal betrayal of precious rights; as part and parcel of an atrocious plot to exclude from a vast unoccupied region immigrants from the Old World and free laborers from our own States,... 
