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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... Conference held its sessions . But these reasons did not apply to the publication of the debates , and a considerable minority were strongly of opinion that the people should be informed daily , of the votes and remarks of their ...
... Conference held its sessions . But these reasons did not apply to the publication of the debates , and a considerable minority were strongly of opinion that the people should be informed daily , of the votes and remarks of their ...
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... Conference . I urged the adoption of this resolution as strenuously as was proper , but the feeling of the majority appeared to be still adverse to its passage , and it shared the fate of its predecessor . I then revised the notes ...
... Conference . I urged the adoption of this resolution as strenuously as was proper , but the feeling of the majority appeared to be still adverse to its passage , and it shared the fate of its predecessor . I then revised the notes ...
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... Conference that I had taken them , I was often pressed to permit selections from them to be made . These requests I invariably declined , as I desired the publication , if made at all , to be entire , as well as accurate . As time ...
... Conference that I had taken them , I was often pressed to permit selections from them to be made . These requests I invariably declined , as I desired the publication , if made at all , to be entire , as well as accurate . As time ...
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... Conference ad- journed until 10 o'clock to - morrow morning . FOURTH DAY . WASHINGTON , THURSDAY , February 7th , 1861 . THE Conference convened , pursuant to the adjournment yes- terday , at 10 o'clock A. M. It was called to order by ...
... Conference ad- journed until 10 o'clock to - morrow morning . FOURTH DAY . WASHINGTON , THURSDAY , February 7th , 1861 . THE Conference convened , pursuant to the adjournment yes- terday , at 10 o'clock A. M. It was called to order by ...
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Seite 229 - 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 65 - 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 and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed...
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 225 - 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, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
Seite 66 - No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute ; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions, which all alliances in all times have experienced.
Seite 65 - 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 the...
Seite 171 - Tis of the wave, and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale. In spite of rock, and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea: Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Seite 66 - One method of assault may be to effect in the forms of the constitution alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Seite 346 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Seite 508 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.