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Message of the Governor of Virginia to the General Assembly ... Virginia. Governor Visualização completa - 1874 |
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Página 25 - That the territories acquired by the blood and treasure of the whole nation, ought to be governed for the common benefit of the people of all the states ; and any organization of the territorial governments, excluding the citizens of any part of the Union from removing to such territories with their property...
Página 28 - Commonwealth; and that the Senators and Representatives of this state in the Congress of the United States, be requested!
Página 26 - The right to prohibit slavery in any Territory, belongs exclusively to the people thereof, and can only be exercised by them in forming their Constitution for a State Government, or in their sovereign capacity as an independent State.
Página 28 - Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing report and resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress...
Página 5 - Mimerais of every description are to be found of the most superior quality, and in quantities absolutely inexhaustible, whilst the earth in which they are embedded, unlike other mineral regions, is of the most desirable character for husbandry. Let this country be penetrated by improvements connecting our seaports with the Ohio, with Kentucky and the valley of Tennessee, and it will infuse a spirit of enterprize into the population, which must, in a short time, fully develop all of our resources.
Página 26 - Resolved by the house of representatives, the senate concurring therein, That the secretary of state be required to...
Página 5 - Ohio river, his for a good many years been generously sustained by appropriations of public money; and, although it has met with strong opposition, it still maintains itself steadfastly in the approbation of well informed reflecting men. The results to Virginia, which are to flow from its completion, will strike the mind, upon a little reflection, as really stupendous. I have no doubt but that the commerce passing through this canal will rapidly build up the towns of Virginia, to the magnitude of...
Página 25 - Act ever did impose any obligation upon the slave-holding states, and authorizes them to insist upon their rights under the Constitution, but for the sake of harmony, and for the preservation of our federal Union, they will still sanction the application of the principle of the "Missouri Compromise...
Página 25 - That the Federal Constitution was the result of a compromise between the conflicting interests of the States which formed it. and in no part of that instrument is to be found any delegation of power to Congress to legislate on the subject of Slavery, excepting some special provisions, having in view the prospective abolition of the African slave trade...
Página 6 - ... of the year. It touches the Ohio river, far south of any water communication from the Atlantic whatever ; and at a point, south of which there can be across the country no water connection. It will, after the first of November, command all the trade of a great part of Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Missouri — and most probably, of those regions lying still higher up...