The Sectional Controversy: Or, Passages in the Political History of the United StatesC. Scribner, 1863 - 269 Seiten |
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... gives no authority to Congress to legis- late in favor of morals and religion ; these subjects are reserved for the action of the States . The Constitution treats slavery as a political matter only , and gives no authority to Congress ...
... gives no authority to Congress to legis- late in favor of morals and religion ; these subjects are reserved for the action of the States . The Constitution treats slavery as a political matter only , and gives no authority to Congress ...
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... give a warm welcome to the petitions , as if they were glad to ventilate their abhorrence of slave - trading and slaveholding . In this contest the Southern States retained , indeed , their constitutional rights , but they had to ...
... give a warm welcome to the petitions , as if they were glad to ventilate their abhorrence of slave - trading and slaveholding . In this contest the Southern States retained , indeed , their constitutional rights , but they had to ...
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... give undue influence to the General Gov- ernment , and would thus weaken the State Governments ; that it would not be justified by the Constitution , the powers of that instrument being specified , and this was not among them ; that it ...
... give undue influence to the General Gov- ernment , and would thus weaken the State Governments ; that it would not be justified by the Constitution , the powers of that instrument being specified , and this was not among them ; that it ...
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... give me leave now..to say that , if prophets had arisen in that body , ( the Convention of Virginia , ) and brought the declarations and proceedings of this day to view , I as firmly believe Virginia might not have been a part of the ...
... give me leave now..to say that , if prophets had arisen in that body , ( the Convention of Virginia , ) and brought the declarations and proceedings of this day to view , I as firmly believe Virginia might not have been a part of the ...
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... give effect to the rendition clause in the Constitution . There was but little ne- cessity , in those times , and long after , for an act of Congress to authorize the recovery of fugitive slaves . The laws of the States and still more ...
... give effect to the rendition clause in the Constitution . There was but little ne- cessity , in those times , and long after , for an act of Congress to authorize the recovery of fugitive slaves . The laws of the States and still more ...
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abolish slavery abolition of slavery Abolitionists ADAMS administration admission admit adopted agitation amendment Articles of Confederation authority citizens CLAY Colonies committee compact Confederacy Confederation Congress Connecticut Convention declared delegates District of Columbia disunion duties election England equal ernment exercise existence favor Federal Government fugitive slave law fugitive slaves gentlemen Georgia GOUVERNEUR MORRIS Hartford Convention House independent institutions interests JEFFERSON JOHN QUINCY ADAMS language legislation Legislature Louisiana MADISON manufactures Massachusetts measure ment Missouri Compromise Northern members object opinion opposed opposition party passed peace Pennsylvania petitions political portion present President principles proposed protection question ratified repeal Republican resolutions respect revenue Rhode Island secession sectional feelings Senate SLADE slaveholders South Carolina Southern sovereign sovereignty speech spirit stitution subject of slavery tariff laws tariff of 1828 territory thing tion Union United Vermont violation Virginia vote Washington WEBSTER whole Wilmot proviso
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Seite 204 - I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Seite 246 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Seite 211 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Seite 45 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Seite 26 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Seite 60 - Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Seite 211 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.
Seite 223 - Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Seite 165 - I speak to-day for the preservation of the Union. "Hear me for my cause." I speak to-day, out of a solicitous and anxious heart, for the restoration to the country of that quiet and that harmony which make the blessings of this Union so rich, and so dear to us all.
Seite 39 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...