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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... express our own opinions of the prospect which may exist of the settlement of existing difficulties . The Commissioners from Virginia would be placed in a delicate , not to say an awkward position , by the adoption of a rule here which ...
... express our own opinions of the prospect which may exist of the settlement of existing difficulties . The Commissioners from Virginia would be placed in a delicate , not to say an awkward position , by the adoption of a rule here which ...
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... express- ing an anxious desire for the settlement of the difficult questions now before the country . They have been sent to me with a re- quest that I should lay them before this Convention . Why I was selected by them for the ...
... express- ing an anxious desire for the settlement of the difficult questions now before the country . They have been sent to me with a re- quest that I should lay them before this Convention . Why I was selected by them for the ...
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... express a sentiment which has im- pressed itself upon many other bosoms in this assembly , when I say that his sudden death in the midst of our deliberations , seems to me to exalt - in some degree to canonize our labors . This ...
... express a sentiment which has im- pressed itself upon many other bosoms in this assembly , when I say that his sudden death in the midst of our deliberations , seems to me to exalt - in some degree to canonize our labors . This ...
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... express our wishes to Congress in reference to the Constitution without permitting California , Oregon , or many other States not here represented , to unite in our deliberations ? I cannot assent to such an unfair proceeding toward ...
... express our wishes to Congress in reference to the Constitution without permitting California , Oregon , or many other States not here represented , to unite in our deliberations ? I cannot assent to such an unfair proceeding toward ...
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... express are entertained likewise by the border States , by all the citizens of the South , by every householder of my State in a greater or less degree . The State to which I refer , Virginia , is now met in solemn convocation to ...
... express are entertained likewise by the border States , by all the citizens of the South , by every householder of my State in a greater or less degree . The State to which I refer , Virginia , is now met in solemn convocation to ...
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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...