The Life and Times of Samuel Bowles, Volume 1Century Company, 1885 - Biography & Autobiography Bowles was editor of the newspaper Springfield Republican and advocated founding the Republican Party. |
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... keep before our eyes the fortunes of the great com- munity of which he is a member . - The sketch here given of the more prominent events of the country's political history makes no pretensions to profundity of research or originality ...
... keep before our eyes the fortunes of the great com- munity of which he is a member . - The sketch here given of the more prominent events of the country's political history makes no pretensions to profundity of research or originality ...
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... keeping him docile and respectful . All this was swiftly changing . The newspaper , strengthened by railroad and telegraph , was becoming so strong that it needed not to ask favors or depend on them . The Re- publican took the lead ...
... keeping him docile and respectful . All this was swiftly changing . The newspaper , strengthened by railroad and telegraph , was becoming so strong that it needed not to ask favors or depend on them . The Re- publican took the lead ...
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... keep in abeyance the dangerous question of slavery ; in each , the Southern wing repressed any active anti - slavery tendency in the Northern wing . At the South , the disunion element made some tentative efforts at organization , but ...
... keep in abeyance the dangerous question of slavery ; in each , the Southern wing repressed any active anti - slavery tendency in the Northern wing . At the South , the disunion element made some tentative efforts at organization , but ...
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... keep the two sections . harmonious and united in a common country . From this stand - point , his plea was unanswerable . The one fact he ignored was that the system of slavery was a profoundly wrong and mischievous system , which it ...
... keep the two sections . harmonious and united in a common country . From this stand - point , his plea was unanswerable . The one fact he ignored was that the system of slavery was a profoundly wrong and mischievous system , which it ...
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... keep the peace by keeping an even balance of power between the two sections , saw the scales rudely jostled . Clay and Webster and Calhoun were dead . Calhoun's spirit had mastered the South , and made aggressiveness its key - note ...
... keep the peace by keeping an even balance of power between the two sections , saw the scales rudely jostled . Clay and Webster and Calhoun were dead . Calhoun's spirit had mastered the South , and made aggressiveness its key - note ...
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Page 115 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 94 - That the series of acts of the Thirty-second Congress, the act known as the Fugitive Slave Law included, are received and acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United States as a settlement in principle and substance of the dangerous and exciting questions which they embrace...
Page 241 - Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and, therefore, ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. 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 slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Page 240 - Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion, for this work is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it. His avowed mission is impressing the " public heart
Page 201 - A man," said Oliver Cromwell, "never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going.
Page 272 - ... if the Cotton States shall decide that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on letting them go in peace.
Page 238 - I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything. I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone.
Page 238 - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality.
Page 151 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the Territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery.
Page 219 - The Constitution of the United States forbids Congress to deprive a man of his property, without due process of law ; the right of property in slaves is distinctly and expressly affirmed in that Constitution ; therefore, if Congress shall undertake to say that a man's slave is no longer his slave, when he crosses a certain line into a territory, that is depriving him of his property without due process of law...