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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... amendment , and there is some difference of opinion about it . In my opinion the amendment would not ap- ply to future territory , and I intended at the proper time to offer an amendment which should make it plain , and not leave it ...
... amendment , and there is some difference of opinion about it . In my opinion the amendment would not ap- ply to future territory , and I intended at the proper time to offer an amendment which should make it plain , and not leave it ...
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... amendment and the motion were adopted without ob- jection . Mr. ALEXANDER , of New Jersey , took the chair . The PRESIDENT : -The Convention will now proceed to the order of the day - the consideration of the report of the com- mittee ...
... amendment and the motion were adopted without ob- jection . Mr. ALEXANDER , of New Jersey , took the chair . The PRESIDENT : -The Convention will now proceed to the order of the day - the consideration of the report of the com- mittee ...
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... amendment is to add the word " present . " Can this be treated as an amendment to his motion ? I must say that my duty to my country and State will prevent my voting for the proposition as he proposes to limit it . Mr. COALTER : -I ...
... amendment is to add the word " present . " Can this be treated as an amendment to his motion ? I must say that my duty to my country and State will prevent my voting for the proposition as he proposes to limit it . Mr. COALTER : -I ...
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... amendment . Mr. JOHNSON : -If such an amendment is proposed I shall vote for it . I know there will be objections raised to it , but they will be far outweighed by the advantages it will give to the South . But the objection of Mr ...
... amendment . Mr. JOHNSON : -If such an amendment is proposed I shall vote for it . I know there will be objections raised to it , but they will be far outweighed by the advantages it will give to the South . But the objection of Mr ...
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... amendment to the people , then I pray from my heart , I hope and believe , that our friends in every section will ... amendment to the Constitu- tion submitted by the majority of the committee . The amendment was adopted without a count ...
... amendment to the people , then I pray from my heart , I hope and believe , that our friends in every section will ... amendment to the Constitu- tion submitted by the majority of the committee . The amendment was adopted without a count ...
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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...