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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... proposed by Gen. James Tallmadge of N. Y .; Proposition sustained by the House ; Remarks thereon by Mr. T. Fuller of Mass ... 48 Remarks of Gen. Tallmadge of N. Y .. Reply of Mr. Scott of Mo .... POLK , JAMES K. , of Tennessee ...
... proposed by Gen. James Tallmadge of N. Y .; Proposition sustained by the House ; Remarks thereon by Mr. T. Fuller of Mass ... 48 Remarks of Gen. Tallmadge of N. Y .. Reply of Mr. Scott of Mo .... POLK , JAMES K. , of Tennessee ...
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... proposed the fol- lowing , expressing the opinion that some such declaration by the Convention would be neces sary , in order to secure the vote of Ohio for the nominee : Resolved , That while all power is denied to Congress , under the ...
... proposed the fol- lowing , expressing the opinion that some such declaration by the Convention would be neces sary , in order to secure the vote of Ohio for the nominee : Resolved , That while all power is denied to Congress , under the ...
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... propose no inter- ference by Congress with Slavery within the limits of any State . Resolved , That the Proviso of Jefferson , to prohibit the existence of Slavery after 1800 , in all the Territories of the United States , Southern and ...
... propose no inter- ference by Congress with Slavery within the limits of any State . Resolved , That the Proviso of Jefferson , to prohibit the existence of Slavery after 1800 , in all the Territories of the United States , Southern and ...
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... proposed the fol- 5. No person should be selected for political station ( whether of native or foreign birth ) , who recognizes any allegiance or obligation of any description to any foreign prince , potentate or power , or who refuses ...
... proposed the fol- 5. No person should be selected for political station ( whether of native or foreign birth ) , who recognizes any allegiance or obligation of any description to any foreign prince , potentate or power , or who refuses ...
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... propose ? Their solution is to leave the question to the decision of the Supreme Court , and agree to abide by any decision that may be made by that tribunal between the citizens of a Territory upon the subject . Why , gentlemen of the ...
... propose ? Their solution is to leave the question to the decision of the Supreme Court , and agree to abide by any decision that may be made by that tribunal between the citizens of a Territory upon the subject . Why , gentlemen of the ...
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Page 87 - Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise 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 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 206 - This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Page 55 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 146 - The fact that we get no votes in your section, is a fact of your making, and not of ours. And if there be fault in that fact, that fault is primarily yours, and remains so until you show that we repel you by some wrong principle or practice. If we do repel you by any wrong principle or practice, the fault is ours ; but this brings you to where you ought to have started — to a discussion of the right or wrong of our principle.
Page 65 - State are unable to protect or from any cause fail in or refuse protection of the people in such rights, such facts shall be deemed a denial by such State of the equal protection of the laws to which they are entitled under the Constitution of the United States...
Page 13 - States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the constitution; that all efforts of the 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,...
Page 147 - Orsini's attempt on Louis Napoleon and John Brown's attempt at Harper's Ferry were, in their philosophy, precisely the same. The eagerness to cast blame on old England in the one case, and on New England in the other, does not disprove the sameness of the two things.
Page 63 - 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 146 - Bearing this in mind, and seeing that sectionalism has since arisen upon this same subject, is that warning a weapon in your hands against us, or in our hands against you ? Could Washington himself speak, would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us, who sustain his policy, or upon you, who repudiate it? We respect that warning of Washington, and we commend it to you, together with his example pointing to the right application of it...