The Cotton Trade: Its Bearing Upon the Prosperity of Great Britain and Commerce of the American Republics, Considered in Connection with the System of Negro Slavery in the Confederate State |
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... principle , to take up arms ; and now , was she to be asked to give up her domestic institutions ? The South asked for no new guaran- tees , no new security ; but she desired that the Constitution should be preserved from violation ...
... principle , to take up arms ; and now , was she to be asked to give up her domestic institutions ? The South asked for no new guaran- tees , no new security ; but she desired that the Constitution should be preserved from violation ...
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... principles of right , justice , equity , and good faith , ' had reached Washington on March 5 , but at the request of Mr. Seward , through a friendly mediator , ' did nothing more than give formal notice of their arrival , in order to ...
... principles of right , justice , equity , and good faith , ' had reached Washington on March 5 , but at the request of Mr. Seward , through a friendly mediator , ' did nothing more than give formal notice of their arrival , in order to ...
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... principles of reciprocal advantages to both , I wish to be ascer- tained of the sentiments and intentions of the Court of ... principle , are not the States comprising the Southern Confederacy entitled to have ministers at the several ...
... principles of reciprocal advantages to both , I wish to be ascer- tained of the sentiments and intentions of the Court of ... principle , are not the States comprising the Southern Confederacy entitled to have ministers at the several ...
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... principle of unlimited sub- mission to their general government ; but that by compact , under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States , and of amendments thereto , they constituted a general govern- ment for special ...
... principle of unlimited sub- mission to their general government ; but that by compact , under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States , and of amendments thereto , they constituted a general govern- ment for special ...
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... principle , founded on common sense , illustrated by common practice , and essential to the nature of compacts , that , where resort can be had to no tribunal superior to the authority of the parties , the parties themselves must be the ...
... principle , founded on common sense , illustrated by common practice , and essential to the nature of compacts , that , where resort can be had to no tribunal superior to the authority of the parties , the parties themselves must be the ...
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Page lxvi - The neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war. 3. Neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under enemy's flag. 4. Blockades, in order to be binding, must be effective — that is to say, maintained by a force sufficient really to prevent access to the coast of the enemy.
Page 166 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States...
Page xxvi - We the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, do ordain, declare, and establish the following Constitution for the government of ourselves and our posterity.
Page 230 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 224 - The importation of negroes of the African race, from any foreign country, other than the slaveholding States or Territories of the United States of America, is hereby forbidden, and Congress is required to pass such laws as shall effectually prevent the same.
Page 264 - 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 99 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 203 - 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 203 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Page 250 - No free negro, free mulatto, or free person of mixed blood, descended from negro ancestors to the fourth generation inclusive (though one ancestor of each generation may have been a white person), shall vote for members of the Senate or House of Commons* SECTION 4.