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... slavery . This Report affords a singular com- parison , in its vigor and fearlessness , with the majority Report of the Senate Committee of Congress on the same subject , signed by James M. Mason , Jefferson Davis and G. N. Fitch ...
... slavery . This Report affords a singular com- parison , in its vigor and fearlessness , with the majority Report of the Senate Committee of Congress on the same subject , signed by James M. Mason , Jefferson Davis and G. N. Fitch ...
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... slavery ; and who had suffered the loss of one - third of her posses- sion , in the unhallowed rape of West Virginia ... slaves , that had been " injected into the belly of the Constitution " by the malignancy of the Stevenses and ...
... slavery ; and who had suffered the loss of one - third of her posses- sion , in the unhallowed rape of West Virginia ... slaves , that had been " injected into the belly of the Constitution " by the malignancy of the Stevenses and ...
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... slavery . Upon a motion to adopt the former rules the debate took a wide range , and involved the repeal of the twenty - first rule and the right of petition generally . On a motion to strike out this rule , which failed of passage , Mr ...
... slavery . Upon a motion to adopt the former rules the debate took a wide range , and involved the repeal of the twenty - first rule and the right of petition generally . On a motion to strike out this rule , which failed of passage , Mr ...
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... slavery , and one from forty - six citizens of Haverhill , Massachusetts , praying for the dissolution of the Union . This provoked a running debate full of bitterness . Mr. Gilmer of Vir- ginia offered a resolution declaring that the ...
... slavery , and one from forty - six citizens of Haverhill , Massachusetts , praying for the dissolution of the Union . This provoked a running debate full of bitterness . Mr. Gilmer of Vir- ginia offered a resolution declaring that the ...
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... slavery . They were append- ages to the lands on which they lived and were bought and sold with the land . Agriculture was loaded with burdens and commerce shackled with vexatious restraints and exac- tions . The condition of the towns ...
... slavery . They were append- ages to the lands on which they lived and were bought and sold with the land . Agriculture was loaded with burdens and commerce shackled with vexatious restraints and exac- tions . The condition of the towns ...
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Page 464 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 449 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 396 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations ; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
Page 128 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Page 184 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Page 298 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 76 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject...
Page 396 - ... characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 241 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility...
Page 82 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.