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... Convention , which Chase Described to Sumner as " an Event Exceeding in Sublimity and Mo- ment all Events in the History of Parties in this Country . " The Utica Convention . Wilmot Repels Buchanan's Attack at Harrisburg . His Speech ...
... Convention , which Chase Described to Sumner as " an Event Exceeding in Sublimity and Mo- ment all Events in the History of Parties in this Country . " The Utica Convention . Wilmot Repels Buchanan's Attack at Harrisburg . His Speech ...
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... Convention and a Rival Candidate . Wilmot Withdraws to Save the Ticket , Selecting Galusha A. Grow as his Successor ... Convention of March 26 . The Philadelphia Convention . Wilmot's Draft of the First Republican Platform . He Is Voted ...
... Convention and a Rival Candidate . Wilmot Withdraws to Save the Ticket , Selecting Galusha A. Grow as his Successor ... Convention of March 26 . The Philadelphia Convention . Wilmot's Draft of the First Republican Platform . He Is Voted ...
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... CONVENTION THAT NOMINATED LINCOLN 527 Wilmot's Part as Temporary Chairman , and his Im- portant Influence in Bringing the Pennsylvania Dele- gation to the Support of Lincoln's Candidacy , and thus Insuring his Nomination . XXXII . FROM ...
... CONVENTION THAT NOMINATED LINCOLN 527 Wilmot's Part as Temporary Chairman , and his Im- portant Influence in Bringing the Pennsylvania Dele- gation to the Support of Lincoln's Candidacy , and thus Insuring his Nomination . XXXII . FROM ...
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... convention of democratic citizens held at the courthouse in that place , May 12 , 1835 , when he was appointed one of a com- mittee of nine to draft resolutions expressing the views of the meeting on the men and measures at issue ...
... convention of democratic citizens held at the courthouse in that place , May 12 , 1835 , when he was appointed one of a com- mittee of nine to draft resolutions expressing the views of the meeting on the men and measures at issue ...
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... Convention on the approaching anniversary of our Independence ; and regard the measure as well calculated to call forth the energies and concentrate the strength of the demo- cratic young men of the State for the coming Presidential ...
... Convention on the approaching anniversary of our Independence ; and regard the measure as well calculated to call forth the energies and concentrate the strength of the demo- cratic young men of the State for the coming Presidential ...
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Page 214 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 414 - That Congress has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution...
Page 574 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 534 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 534 - That the new dogma that the Constitution, of its own force, carries Slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States...
Page 96 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty that may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 414 - Abolitionists or others, made to induce congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.
Page 284 - Ohio; and the inhabitants thereof shall be entitled to, and enjoy, all and singular the rights, privileges, and advantages granted and secured to the people by the said ordinance.
Page 615 - Our national strife springs not from our permanent part> not from the land we inhabit, not from our national homestead. There is no possible severing of this but would multiply, and not mitigate, evils among us. In all its adaptations and aptitudes it demands union and abhors separation. In fact, it would ere long force reunion, however much of blood and treasure the separation might have cost.
Page 104 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...