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" I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slaveholding states ; and also with a determination equally... "
The Congressional Globe - Page 28
by United States. Congress - 1839
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Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States of ...

United States. Congress. Senate - Legislative journals - 1887 - 678 pages
..." 1 must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia against the wishes of the slaveholding States; and also with a determination eqnally decided...
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The Life and Political Opinions of Martin Van Buren, Vice President of the ...

William M. Holland - 1836 - 404 pages
...gratified, I must go into the Presidential Chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of any attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slave-holding States ; and also with the determination equally...
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The Gentleman's Magazine, Volumes 161-162

Early English newspapers - 1837 - 756 pages
...subject of Slavery he declared himself " the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, against the wishes of the slave-holding states ; and also equally determined to resist the...
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The Quarterly Anti-slavery Magazine, Volume 2

Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
...should go into the presidential chair, "the inflexible, and uncompromising opponent of every attempt on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slareholding states" he thipks it proper to say, " It now only...
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Annual Register, Volume 79

Edmund Burke - History - 1838 - 1122 pages
...bill, go retained by the president, is lost. VOL. LXXIX. I compromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, against the wishes of the slave-holding states ; and also with a determination equally decided...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and ..., Volume 79

Edmund Burke - Anglo-Dutch War, 1780-1784 - 1838 - 862 pages
...the bill, so retained by the president, is lost. VOL. LXXIX. compromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, against the wishes of the slave-holding states ; and also with a determination equally decided...
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A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions, Volume 3

Frederick Marryat - Canada - 1839 - 328 pages
...the institution of slavery in the several States of tiW ^ confederacy" the last was as follows : " Resolved, therefore, that all attempts on the part...or the territories, or to prohibit the removal of the slaves from State to State; or to discriminate between the constitution of one portion of the confederacy...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1839 - 944 pages
...the States, and a breach of the public faith on which they entered into the confederacy. Resolved, That all attempts on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia or in the Territories, or to " regulate" the removal of slaves from State to State, or to discriminate...
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A View of the Action of the Federal Government, in Behalf of Slavery

William Jay - Slavery - 1839 - 236 pages
...gratified, I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of any attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slaveholding States" Mr. WHITE was a rival candidate, and deemed...
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year ...

History - 1840 - 954 pages
...the institution of slavery in the several states of the confederacy." The last was as follows : — " Resolved, therefore, that all attempts on the part...abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, or the western territories, or to prohibit the removal of the slaves from state to state, or to discriminate...
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