Freedom to the Free: Century of Emancipation, 1863-1963: A Report to the PresidentU.S. Government Printing Office, 1963 - 246 Seiten |
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... issue more sharply between the pro- and anti - slavery forces . 15 Id . at 215 . 16 Davie , op . cit . supra note 4 , at 18 . 17 Vt . , Mass . , N.H. , R.I. , Conn . , Pa . , N.Y. , and N.J. Arnold , op . cit . supra note 6 , at 28-29 ...
... issue more sharply between the pro- and anti - slavery forces . 15 Id . at 215 . 16 Davie , op . cit . supra note 4 , at 18 . 17 Vt . , Mass . , N.H. , R.I. , Conn . , Pa . , N.Y. , and N.J. Arnold , op . cit . supra note 6 , at 28-29 ...
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... issue was joined and the contending forces might have remained deadlocked in- definitely if Maine had not applied for admission at the same time . Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 , both States were admitted without reference to ...
... issue was joined and the contending forces might have remained deadlocked in- definitely if Maine had not applied for admission at the same time . Under the Missouri Compromise of 1820 , both States were admitted without reference to ...
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... issue a Presiden- tial proclamation calling upon citizens and governmental officials to maintain the law . " The issue of slavery in the northern portions of the Louisi- ana Territory had been deemed settled by the Missouri Com- promise ...
... issue a Presiden- tial proclamation calling upon citizens and governmental officials to maintain the law . " The issue of slavery in the northern portions of the Louisi- ana Territory had been deemed settled by the Missouri Com- promise ...
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... cit . supra note 13 , at 196-97 . 49 Dred Scott v . Sandford , 60 U.S. ( 19 How . ) 393 ( 1857 ) . 50 51 U.S. ( 10 How . ) 82 ( 1851 ) . 51 Swisher , op . cit . supra note 34 , at 243 . The first issue to be decided in his case was 20.
... cit . supra note 13 , at 196-97 . 49 Dred Scott v . Sandford , 60 U.S. ( 19 How . ) 393 ( 1857 ) . 50 51 U.S. ( 10 How . ) 82 ( 1851 ) . 51 Swisher , op . cit . supra note 34 , at 243 . The first issue to be decided in his case was 20.
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... issues were argued before the Court in 1856. Reargument was ordered to avoid rendering an opinion relating to the controversial issue of the Missouri Compromise until after the Presidential election of 1856 . The long awaited decision ...
... issues were argued before the Court in 1856. Reargument was ordered to avoid rendering an opinion relating to the controversial issue of the Missouri Compromise until after the Presidential election of 1856 . The long awaited decision ...
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Seite 36 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Seite 68 - The object of the amendment was undoubtedly to enforce the absolute equality of the two races before the law, but in the nature of things it could not have been intended to abolish distinctions based upon color, or to enforce social, as distinguished from political, equality, or a commingling of the two races upon terms unsatisfactory to either.
Seite 23 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Seite 23 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Seite 36 - States, to make and enforce contracts, to sue, be parties, and give evidence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold, and convey real and personal property...
Seite 69 - But in view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.
Seite 24 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Seite 30 - And I do further proclaim, declare, and make known, that any provision which may be adopted by such State Government in relation to the freed people of such State, which shall recognize and declare their permanent freedom, provide for their education, and which may yet be consistent, as a temporary arrangement, with their present condition as a laboring, landless, and homeless class, will not be objected to by the National Executive.
Seite 69 - Legislation is powerless to eradicate racial instincts or to abolish distinctions based upon physical differences, and the attempt to do so can only result in accentuating the difficulties of the present situation.