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... body . I will not stop to repel the imputations which he cast upon myself ; but I mention them to remind you of the “ sweltered venom , sleeping got , " which , with other poisoned ingredients , he cast into the cauldron of this debate ...
... body . I will not stop to repel the imputations which he cast upon myself ; but I mention them to remind you of the “ sweltered venom , sleeping got , " which , with other poisoned ingredients , he cast into the cauldron of this debate ...
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... body by a slaveholder , vindicated by slaveholders in debate , finally sanctioned by slaveholding votes , also upheld at the time by the essential approbation of a slaveholding President , James Monroe , and his Cabinet , of whom a ...
... body by a slaveholder , vindicated by slaveholders in debate , finally sanctioned by slaveholding votes , also upheld at the time by the essential approbation of a slaveholding President , James Monroe , and his Cabinet , of whom a ...
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... the salaries of any of these functionaries , or the daily allowance of the legislative body , or even the pay of the clerks and door- keepers ; but they were left free to adopt Slavery 18 SPEECH OF HON . CHARLES SUMNER .
... the salaries of any of these functionaries , or the daily allowance of the legislative body , or even the pay of the clerks and door- keepers ; but they were left free to adopt Slavery 18 SPEECH OF HON . CHARLES SUMNER .
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... body of evidence as the human mind is not able to resist . It is found in the concurring reports of the public press ; in the letters of correspondents ; in the testimony of travellers ; and in the unaf fected story to which I have ...
... body of evidence as the human mind is not able to resist . It is found in the concurring reports of the public press ; in the letters of correspondents ; in the testimony of travellers ; and in the unaf fected story to which I have ...
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... body , with trains of fifty wagons , besides horsemen , and , the night before election , pitched their camp in the vicinity of the polls ; and , having appointed their own judges in place of those who , from intimidation or otherwise ...
... body , with trains of fifty wagons , besides horsemen , and , the night before election , pitched their camp in the vicinity of the polls ; and , having appointed their own judges in place of those who , from intimidation or otherwise ...
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Page 19 - 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; 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...
Page 9 - Quixote in behalf of his wench Dulcinea del Toboso is all surpassed. The asserted rights of Slavery, which shock equality of all kinds, are cloaked by a fantastic claim of equality. If the slave States cannot enjoy what, in mockery of the great fathers of the Republic, he misnames equality under the constitution, — in other words. the full power in the National Territories to compel fellow-men to unpaid toil, to separate husband and wife, and to sell little children at the...
Page 9 - The Senator from South Carolina has read many books of chivalry, and believes himself a chivalrous knight, with sentiments of honor and courage. Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean the harlot. Slavery.
Page 48 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 48 - An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions,' it is enacted, ' that whenever the laws of the United States shall be opposed, or the execution thereof obstructed, in any state, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the power vested in the marshals...
Page 48 - ... to employ for the same purposes such part of the land or naval force of the United States as shall be judged necessary, having first observed all the prerequisites of the law in that respect.
Page 65 - Kansas, the Legislature of said Territory shall be, and is hereby, authorized to provide by law for the election of delegates, by the people of said Territory, to assemble in Convention and form a Constitution and State Government, preparatory to their admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatsoever, by the name of the State of Kansas.
Page 41 - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Page 33 - Neither give nor take quarter, as our cause demands it. It is enough that the slaveholding interest wills it, from which there is no appeal. What right has Governor Reeder to rule Missourians in Kansas ? His proclamation and prescribed oath must be repudiated. It is your interest to do so. Mind that Slavery is established where it is not prohibited.
Page 6 - Such is the Crime which you are to judge. But the criminal also must be dragged into day, that you may see and measure the power by which all this wrong is sustained. From no common source could it proceed. In its perpetration was needed a spirit of vaulting ambition which would hesitate at nothing ; a hardihood of purpose which was insensible to the judgment of mankind; a madness for Slavery which...