A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential Nominations and Elections Including All the National Platforms Ever Yet Adopted: Also a History of the Struggle Respecting Slavery in the Territories, and of the Action of Congress as to the Freedom of the Public Lands, with the Most Notable Speeches and Letters of Messrs. Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Cass, Seward, Everett, Breckinridge, H. V. Johnson, Etc ., Etc., Touching the Questions of the Day; and Returns of All Presidential Elections Since 1836 |
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... unorganized , - And that , until the fourth day of July , eighteen hundred and fifty , unless Congress shall sooner provide for the government of said Territories , the existing laws there- of shall be retained and observed . The ...
... unorganized , - And that , until the fourth day of July , eighteen hundred and fifty , unless Congress shall sooner provide for the government of said Territories , the existing laws there- of shall be retained and observed . The ...
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... unorganized portions of the American continent that lie within the jurisdiction of the United States . To - morrow's sun will rise in dim eclipse over them . How long that ob- scuration shall last , is known only to the Power that di ...
... unorganized portions of the American continent that lie within the jurisdiction of the United States . To - morrow's sun will rise in dim eclipse over them . How long that ob- scuration shall last , is known only to the Power that di ...
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... Unorganized 233 Unorganized 374 3638 2302 108 525 1841 631 3691 4978 675 4084 5072 628 2755 5080 4102 4984 5280 6755 2088 2299 Total 38345 82789 422 16147 29997 6695 || 14781 27763 7560 || 17866 | 27160 | 4161 26168 32761 4161 ...
... Unorganized 233 Unorganized 374 3638 2302 108 525 1841 631 3691 4978 675 4084 5072 628 2755 5080 4102 4984 5280 6755 2088 2299 Total 38345 82789 422 16147 29997 6695 || 14781 27763 7560 || 17866 | 27160 | 4161 26168 32761 4161 ...
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... Unorganized 696 1497 1190 194 35 5997 2824 127 55 1297 882 5471 8655 88 1411 902 4636 2832 2388 1778 1434 760 80 1129 703 732 501 2191 8220 9 2544 3386 1830 2733 13 2631 2058 26 1883 1577 2022 1494 2469 1807 129 2321 2023 2014 1683 5 ...
... Unorganized 696 1497 1190 194 35 5997 2824 127 55 1297 882 5471 8655 88 1411 902 4636 2832 2388 1778 1434 760 80 1129 703 732 501 2191 8220 9 2544 3386 1830 2733 13 2631 2058 26 1883 1577 2022 1494 2469 1807 129 2321 2023 2014 1683 5 ...
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... Unorganized 2822 1795 174 3321 2380 2 401 582 111 3331 4539 90 3081 2071 124 997 1214 12 919 917 223 381 Un organized . 2526 1861 402 85 2818 1004 OHIO- ( Continued ) . 1856 . 1852 . 1848 218 A POLITICAL TEXT - BOOK FOR 1860 .
... Unorganized 2822 1795 174 3321 2380 2 401 582 111 3331 4539 90 3081 2071 124 997 1214 12 919 917 223 381 Un organized . 2526 1861 402 85 2818 1004 OHIO- ( Continued ) . 1856 . 1852 . 1848 218 A POLITICAL TEXT - BOOK FOR 1860 .
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Page 127 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 127 - 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 127 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 201 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 132 - In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. 'A house divided against itself cannot stand.' I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved. I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
Page 177 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 185 - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
Page 22 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 26 - ... is essential to the preservation of our Republican institutions; and that the Federal Constitution, the rights of the States and the Union of the States must and shall be preserved.
Page 201 - This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments. And to the defense of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted.