 That we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of a majority of actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form...  Abraham Lincoln: A History - Page 40by John George Nicolay, John Hay - 1890Full view - About this book
 | American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1913 - 772 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution with or without domestic slavery and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with other States. This resolution not only embodied the principles upon which the Kansas bill was founded... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - History - 1914 - 718 pages
...whenever the number of their votes will justify, to form a State constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States." Here was a seeming endorsement of Douglas's " popular sovereignty" doctrine, but when carefully analyzed... | |
 | Francis Asbury Sampson - Missouri - 1914 - 290 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other states." PLATFORM ON WHICH BRECKENRIDGE WAS NOMINATED AT BALTIMORE, JUNE 28, 1860. "Resolved: That the platform... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1917 - 586 pages
...residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a constitution with or without slavery and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States." The convention to frame a constitution for Kansas met on the first Monday of September last. They were... | |
 | Ray Burdick Smith - New York (State) - 1922 - 636 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States. "Resolved, finally, That in view of the condition of popular institutions in the old world (and the... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1923 - 602 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a constitution with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States. " If there had been any doubt before as to what "may elect" referred to, this resolution certainly... | |
 | Political parties - 1924 - 552 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States. Resolved, Finally, That in view of the condition of popular institutions in the Old World (and the... | |
 | 1887 - 980 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms...explicit resolution was again even more flagrantly *On the sixteenth ballot Buchanan received 1 68 votes, of which 121 were from the free States and 47... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1858 - 1056 pages
...the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a constitution, with or without slavery, and bo admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States.' " The Convention to frame a constitution for Kansas met on the first Monday of September last. They... | |
 | Democratic National Convention - Democratic Party (U.S.) - 1856 - 94 pages
...whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it; to form a Constitution, with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States. Resolved, finally, That in the view of the condition of popular, institutions in the Old World (and... | |
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