Life of Stephen A. Douglas: United States Senator from IllinoisDerby & Jackson, 1860 - 457 pages |
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... means essential to its perform- ance . This principle has been recognized and acted upon by all civilized nations , and is familiar to all who are conversant with military history . It does not imply the right to suspend the laws and ...
... means essential to its perform- ance . This principle has been recognized and acted upon by all civilized nations , and is familiar to all who are conversant with military history . It does not imply the right to suspend the laws and ...
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... means of executing that enumerated power . Our federal system is admirably adapted to the whole continent ; and while I would not violate the laws of nations , nor treaty stipulations , nor in any manner tarnish the national honor , I ...
... means of executing that enumerated power . Our federal system is admirably adapted to the whole continent ; and while I would not violate the laws of nations , nor treaty stipulations , nor in any manner tarnish the national honor , I ...
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... means of an amicable settlement of a fearful controversy in 1821 , which had been acquiesced in cheerfully by the people for more than a quarter of a century , and which all parties and sections of the Union respected and cherished as a ...
... means of an amicable settlement of a fearful controversy in 1821 , which had been acquiesced in cheerfully by the people for more than a quarter of a century , and which all parties and sections of the Union respected and cherished as a ...
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... means a Rebublican . My colleague is the head and front of Republi- canism in Illinois in opposition to Democracy . You might as well call the distinguished senator from New York ( Mr. Seward ) , or the member from Massachusetts ( Mr ...
... means a Rebublican . My colleague is the head and front of Republi- canism in Illinois in opposition to Democracy . You might as well call the distinguished senator from New York ( Mr. Seward ) , or the member from Massachusetts ( Mr ...
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... means by which the peace of the country could be preserved , and the Union per- petuated , I pledged him , on that death - bed of his , that so long as I lived my energies should be devoted to the vindication of that principle , and of ...
... means by which the peace of the country could be preserved , and the Union per- petuated , I pledged him , on that death - bed of his , that so long as I lived my energies should be devoted to the vindication of that principle , and of ...
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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...