A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention: For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861D. Appleton, 1864 - 626 Seiten |
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... Indiana . North Carolina , Mr. PRICE , of New Jersey : -I am informed that a number of Reporters for the press are at the door of the hall , desiring admittance to this Conference , for the purpose of reporting our proceedings ...
... Indiana . North Carolina , Mr. PRICE , of New Jersey : -I am informed that a number of Reporters for the press are at the door of the hall , desiring admittance to this Conference , for the purpose of reporting our proceedings ...
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... Indiana , Godlove S. Orth . The Conference then adjourned to meet at 12 o'clock M. to - morrow . SECOND DAY . WASHINGTON , TUESDAY , February 5th , 1861 . THE Conference was called to order by the Chairman pro tem . , pursuant to ...
... Indiana , Godlove S. Orth . The Conference then adjourned to meet at 12 o'clock M. to - morrow . SECOND DAY . WASHINGTON , TUESDAY , February 5th , 1861 . THE Conference was called to order by the Chairman pro tem . , pursuant to ...
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... Indiana , and Illinois , and Ohio , who have grown up into powerful States , already grand , potent , and almost imperial . Tennessee is not here , but is com- ing - prevented only from being here by the floods which have swollen her ...
... Indiana , and Illinois , and Ohio , who have grown up into powerful States , already grand , potent , and almost imperial . Tennessee is not here , but is com- ing - prevented only from being here by the floods which have swollen her ...
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... Indiana , Caleb B. Smith ; Illinois , Stephen T. Logan ; Iowa , James Harlan ; Maryland , Reverdy Johnson ; Virginia , James A. Seddon . Mr. WICKLIFFE : -The Committee on Rules have further considered the rule relating to the secrecy of ...
... Indiana , Caleb B. Smith ; Illinois , Stephen T. Logan ; Iowa , James Harlan ; Maryland , Reverdy Johnson ; Virginia , James A. Seddon . Mr. WICKLIFFE : -The Committee on Rules have further considered the rule relating to the secrecy of ...
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... Indiana , Illinois , Iowa , and New York - 8 . So the motion to lay on the table prevailed . When the State of Ohio was called , a member of her delega- tion stated that it was equally divided . Mr. TUCK : -I ask the unanimous consent ...
... Indiana , Illinois , Iowa , and New York - 8 . So the motion to lay on the table prevailed . When the State of Ohio was called , a member of her delega- tion stated that it was equally divided . Mr. TUCK : -I ask the unanimous consent ...
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Seite 171 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Seite 61 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them, at his or their request shall be furnished with a transcript of the said Journal, except such parts as are above excepted, to lay before the legislatures of the...
Seite 67 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like...
Seite 67 - It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee, that from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth, as this is the point in your political fortress, against which the batteries of internal...
Seite 67 - Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety: discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can, in any event, be abandoned and indignantly...
Seite 219 - 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.
Seite 458 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its...
Seite 226 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever...
Seite 530 - Congress shall provide by law for securing to the citizens of each State the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Seite 217 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...