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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... talk with Mr. Lincoln . I want you to say to him what you have said to me , and then I want the result of this night's de- liberations to be telegraphed to the country . ' That interview at the White House between these three men ...
... talk with Mr. Lincoln . I want you to say to him what you have said to me , and then I want the result of this night's de- liberations to be telegraphed to the country . ' That interview at the White House between these three men ...
Page 89
... , Marshal Devens visited the town , for the purpose , as was at first believed , of arresting some fugitive slaves , there had been free talk of resisting him by violence ; and this manifestation , THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW . 89.
... , Marshal Devens visited the town , for the purpose , as was at first believed , of arresting some fugitive slaves , there had been free talk of resisting him by violence ; and this manifestation , THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW . 89.
Page 93
... talk . But in the Whig convention held in Springfield , September 11 , there was not one voice in rebuke of slavery aggression . The Compromise , the Union , and Webster , were the unanimous cry . The resolutions in one paragraph ...
... talk . But in the Whig convention held in Springfield , September 11 , there was not one voice in rebuke of slavery aggression . The Compromise , the Union , and Webster , were the unanimous cry . The resolutions in one paragraph ...
Page 109
... talk to Hood for five minutes , giving him points for an article , and then go off , and Hood would work it out perfectly . " To thus use another man's brain and hand is one of the special gifts of a great journalist . Mr. Bowles had it ...
... talk to Hood for five minutes , giving him points for an article , and then go off , and Hood would work it out perfectly . " To thus use another man's brain and hand is one of the special gifts of a great journalist . Mr. Bowles had it ...
Page 117
... talk of trying to identify the Whig party with the cause of freedom , it was generally agreed that the only hope of victory lay in a new party , for which the name Republican was judged appropriate . Michigan took the lead among the ...
... talk of trying to identify the Whig party with the cause of freedom , it was generally agreed that the only hope of victory lay in a new party , for which the name Republican was judged appropriate . Michigan took the lead among the ...
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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...