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... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES , DECEMBER 8 , 1856 . WASHINGTON : PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE . THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE . The House having under consideration the 1856 . SPEECH.
... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES , DECEMBER 8 , 1856 . WASHINGTON : PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE CONGRESSIONAL GLOBE . THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE . The House having under consideration the 1856 . SPEECH.
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... House ; and his promises in his first message quieted even the enmity of his oppo- nents . They were as cheering as his hope was buoyant . He is about to retire , deserted by his own party , by his own State , and , I believe , by his ...
... House ; and his promises in his first message quieted even the enmity of his oppo- nents . They were as cheering as his hope was buoyant . He is about to retire , deserted by his own party , by his own State , and , I believe , by his ...
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... houses , were everywhere erected ; but as it spread over the great fertile valleys of the West , its prairies and its ... house- hold gods away to the foot of the Rocky Mount- ains ; and we saw in it a manifestation to the world at large ...
... houses , were everywhere erected ; but as it spread over the great fertile valleys of the West , its prairies and its ... house- hold gods away to the foot of the Rocky Mount- ains ; and we saw in it a manifestation to the world at large ...
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... House ; Vermont but three . Is that the equality of the States of which gentlemen speak ? I grant it is such ... House , and to the States as corporations their gone in relation to the Territories is this : Where equal weight in the ...
... House ; Vermont but three . Is that the equality of the States of which gentlemen speak ? I grant it is such ... House , and to the States as corporations their gone in relation to the Territories is this : Where equal weight in the ...
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... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES , DECEMBER 10 , 1856 . • Mr. WASHBURN , of Maine , said : Mr. SPEAKER : I am not inclined to favor the Constitution , framed and adopted by our fathers , and proposition before the House to print an unusu - ings ...
... HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES , DECEMBER 10 , 1856 . • Mr. WASHBURN , of Maine , said : Mr. SPEAKER : I am not inclined to favor the Constitution , framed and adopted by our fathers , and proposition before the House to print an unusu - ings ...
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Seite 6 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy, and slavery.
Seite 10 - 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 1 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Seite 11 - March 6, 1820, be, and the same is hereby, declared to extend to the Pacific Ocean ; and the said eighth section, together with the compromise therein effected, is hereby revived and declared to be in full force and binding for the future organization of the Territories of the United States, in the same sense and with the same understanding with which it was originally adopted.
Seite 7 - Vincents, and the neighboring villages, who have professed themselves citizens of Virginia, shall have their possessions and titles confirmed to them, and be protected in the enjoyment of their rights and liberties.
Seite 1 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God...
Seite 9 - That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law...
Seite 8 - No man I believe ever had a greater choice of evils and less means to extricate himself from them. However, under a full persuasion of the justice of our cause, I cannot entertain an idea that it will finally sink, though it may remain for some time under a cloud.
Seite 10 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state, contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be,. and is hereby, forever prohibited...