The Sectional Controversy, Or, Passages in the Political History of the United States: Including the Causes of the War Between the SectionsScribner, 1864 - 269 Seiten |
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... adopting a chronological arrangement of my materials , I have endeavored to bring distinctly into view the prominent questions in dispute between the two sections in the successive eras , from the first set- tlement of the country down ...
... adopting a chronological arrangement of my materials , I have endeavored to bring distinctly into view the prominent questions in dispute between the two sections in the successive eras , from the first set- tlement of the country down ...
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... , eleven of them , adopted the articles of confederation in 1778 , one in 1779 , and the remaining one in 1781 , by which the union of the States was consummated . SECTIONAL FEELING YIELDING TO LOVE OF COUNTRY . It is.
... , eleven of them , adopted the articles of confederation in 1778 , one in 1779 , and the remaining one in 1781 , by which the union of the States was consummated . SECTIONAL FEELING YIELDING TO LOVE OF COUNTRY . It is.
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... adopt the " Articles of Confederation . " When that fear was removed by the treaty of peace , January , 1783 , those articles had lost their power as a bond of union . The common fear of imbecility and anarchy , into which they were in ...
... adopt the " Articles of Confederation . " When that fear was removed by the treaty of peace , January , 1783 , those articles had lost their power as a bond of union . The common fear of imbecility and anarchy , into which they were in ...
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... adoption of the Constitution , if they saw , distinctly , the whole amount of protection afforded to slave property , as they would , if slaves were distinctly named . And yet he declared that , as a matter of fact , domestic slavery ...
... adoption of the Constitution , if they saw , distinctly , the whole amount of protection afforded to slave property , as they would , if slaves were distinctly named . And yet he declared that , as a matter of fact , domestic slavery ...
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... adoption , so strong was the opposition to it in some of them , that it became evident that it could not be ratified by all ... adopted , the citizens of REMARKS . 25 the different States were familiar with the 24 THE SECTIONAL CONTROVERSY .
... adoption , so strong was the opposition to it in some of them , that it became evident that it could not be ratified by all ... adopted , the citizens of REMARKS . 25 the different States were familiar with the 24 THE SECTIONAL CONTROVERSY .
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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 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 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 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 39 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Seite 191 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...