Life of Stephen A. Douglas: United States Senator from IllinoisDerby & Jackson, 1860 - 457 pages |
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... Effect , • • 39 CHAPTER VIII . Speech in favor of making Gen. Winfield Scott a Lieutenant - General- Speech on the Fugitive Slave Law - Speech on the Foreign Policy of the United States - Retrospective View of the Course of Mr. Douglas ...
... Effect , • • 39 CHAPTER VIII . Speech in favor of making Gen. Winfield Scott a Lieutenant - General- Speech on the Fugitive Slave Law - Speech on the Foreign Policy of the United States - Retrospective View of the Course of Mr. Douglas ...
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... Effect . WHEN the Compromise measures of Mr. Clay were brought forward in 1850 , Mr. Douglas supported them with zeal and vigor . On the 13th and 14th of March , he deli- vered a speech on the general territorial questions , which has ...
... Effect . WHEN the Compromise measures of Mr. Clay were brought forward in 1850 , Mr. Douglas supported them with zeal and vigor . On the 13th and 14th of March , he deli- vered a speech on the general territorial questions , which has ...
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... EFFECT ON SLAVERY . A distinguished southern senator having said that the South had been deprived of its due share of the territories , Mr. Douglas responded , " What share had the South in the territories ? or the North ? I answer ...
... EFFECT ON SLAVERY . A distinguished southern senator having said that the South had been deprived of its due share of the territories , Mr. Douglas responded , " What share had the South in the territories ? or the North ? I answer ...
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... effects of the Missouri Compromise on the question of slavery , I do not think that it had any prac- tical effect on that question , one way or another : it neither curtailed nor extended slavery one inch . " A GLANCE AT THE FUTURE ...
... effects of the Missouri Compromise on the question of slavery , I do not think that it had any prac- tical effect on that question , one way or another : it neither curtailed nor extended slavery one inch . " A GLANCE AT THE FUTURE ...
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... effect of that speech upon that meeting , comprising three - fourths of all the legal voters of the city of Chicago ? The people composing that meeting , a majority of whom had , the night previously , pledged themselves to open and ...
... effect of that speech upon that meeting , comprising three - fourths of all the legal voters of the city of Chicago ? The people composing that meeting , a majority of whom had , the night previously , pledged themselves to open and ...
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Page 107 - 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. It will become all one thing, or all the other. 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...
Page 60 - That the legislative power of the Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States ; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Page 62 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Page 164 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void...
Page 129 - ... Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature ; and if the people are opposed to slavery, they will elect representatives to that body who will by unfriendly legislation effectually prevent the introduction of it into their midst. If, on the contrary, they are for it, their legislation will favor its extension. Hence, no matter what the decision of the Supreme Court may be on that abstract question, still the right of the people to make a Slave Territory or a Free...
Page 59 - 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 61 - That nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to or affect the provisions of the "act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Page 132 - This legislation is founded upon principles as ancient as free government itself, and in accordance with them has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits.
Page 128 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution ? 2 1 See Appendix A, Lecompton Constitution.
Page 59 - an act to authorize the people of the Missouri Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories...