Journal of the Missouri State Convention |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 100
Page 5
... rebellion against our Government exists , and its primary object is to inaugurate a government in which slavery shall be fostered as the controlling interest . " " If the leaders of this rebellion do really desire to have our State ...
... rebellion against our Government exists , and its primary object is to inaugurate a government in which slavery shall be fostered as the controlling interest . " " If the leaders of this rebellion do really desire to have our State ...
Page 8
... rebellion has brought against her . She has met every call for troops which the Government of the United States has made upon her . She has raised ten thousand men for her own defence , to serve during the war . She has organized her ...
... rebellion has brought against her . She has met every call for troops which the Government of the United States has made upon her . She has raised ten thousand men for her own defence , to serve during the war . She has organized her ...
Page 9
... rebellion , will yield to our arms , and that the navigation of the Mississippi will be opened to us . When this is accomplished , when our flag shall be borne all along the Mississippi , there can be no war of magni- tude on the ...
... rebellion , will yield to our arms , and that the navigation of the Mississippi will be opened to us . When this is accomplished , when our flag shall be borne all along the Mississippi , there can be no war of magni- tude on the ...
Page 11
... rebellion in the State may be said to be broken . That there are those who still cherish animosity against the Federal and State Government I am sure , and that there are those who cordially hate Union men I have occasion to know ; that ...
... rebellion in the State may be said to be broken . That there are those who still cherish animosity against the Federal and State Government I am sure , and that there are those who cordially hate Union men I have occasion to know ; that ...
Page 23
... rebellion which was then being inaugurated , and is still in progress , every step of which has been marked with misery , desolation and bloodshed . Your committee would there- fore report the following resolution , and recommend its ...
... rebellion which was then being inaugurated , and is still in progress , every step of which has been marked with misery , desolation and bloodshed . Your committee would there- fore report the following resolution , and recommend its ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abolitionists action adjourn adopted amendment ayes and noes AYES-Messrs believe Birch body Bogy Bonnifield Breckinridge Broadhead bushwhackers called Cayce cipation citizens Comingo committee Constitution Convention declared desire District Doniphan Drake of St duty Duvall eighteen hundred Eitzen election favor Frayser Gamble Gantt gentleman from St Government Governor Gravelly Hall Henderson Hitchcock Hough Howell Isbell JEFFERSON CITY labor Leeper Legislature Lindenbower Louis loyal majority Marmaduke Marvin Matson matter McClurg McFerran ment Meyer military Missouri motion Moxley negro NOES-Messrs offered ordinance owners party pass peace present President Prewitt proposition Provost Marshal question reason rebel rebellion referred resolution Ritchey Sayre Schofield session Shackelford of St Shanklin Sheeley slaveholders slavery slaves Smith of St soldiers souri Stewart submit tion Union vacancy Vanbuskirk vention vote Woodson Woolfolk writ of election
Popular passages
Page 238 - The new constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution, African slavery as it exists among us, the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization." This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his fore'cast, had anticipated this as the "rock upon which the old Union would split.
Page 77 - That the people of this State have the inherent, sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof, and of altering and abolishing their Constitution and form of government whenever it may be necessary for their safety and happiness...
Page 288 - Resolved that the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 165 - 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 slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Page 243 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Page 160 - For the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, or without paying them, before such emancipation, a full equivalent for such slaves so emancipated...
Page 207 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this act shall take effect...
Page 78 - Every white* male citizen of the United States, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years...
Page 163 - 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 duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, Polygamy and Slavery.
Page 238 - Pause, I entreat you, and consider for a moment what reasons you can give that will even satisfy yourselves in calmer moments — what reasons you can give to your fellow-sufferers in the calamity that it will bring upon us.