Great Debates in American History: Slavery from 1790 to 1857Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
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... United States , it will certainly tend to the interest and honor of the community to attempt a remedy , and is a proper subject for our discussion . It may be that foreigners take the advantage of the liberty afforded them by the ...
... United States , it will certainly tend to the interest and honor of the community to attempt a remedy , and is a proper subject for our discussion . It may be that foreigners take the advantage of the liberty afforded them by the ...
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... United States ; and this could only exist where the Constitution granted , in express terms , an exclusive authority to the Union , or where it granted in one instance an authority to the Union and in another prohibited the States from ...
... United States ; and this could only exist where the Constitution granted , in express terms , an exclusive authority to the Union , or where it granted in one instance an authority to the Union and in another prohibited the States from ...
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... United States . MR . SITGREAVES said he was not prepared to deny that this petition is in the situation the gentleman from Virginia [ Mr. Madison ] states ; nor was he prepared to prove that it came under the power of the general ...
... United States . MR . SITGREAVES said he was not prepared to deny that this petition is in the situation the gentleman from Virginia [ Mr. Madison ] states ; nor was he prepared to prove that it came under the power of the general ...
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... United States ought to amend it so that justice should be done . MR . KITCHELL said that the question was not now whether the petitioners are or are not slaves , but it is on a law of the United States . They assert that this law does ...
... United States ought to amend it so that justice should be done . MR . KITCHELL said that the question was not now whether the petitioners are or are not slaves , but it is on a law of the United States . They assert that this law does ...
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... united to suppress it . So long as Spain or Portugal permitted this trade , and so long as any of our own people , to their disgrace , continued to pursue it under those flags , it was necessary to the honor and the interest of this ...
... united to suppress it . So long as Spain or Portugal permitted this trade , and so long as any of our own people , to their disgrace , continued to pursue it under those flags , it was necessary to the honor and the interest of this ...
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abolition abolitionists admission admit adopted agitation amendment argument authority believe bill citizens clause committee compact compromise of 1850 Congress Constitution convention debate decision Declaration denied doctrine Dred Scott duty effect emancipation equal exercise existence favor February 11 Federal foreign freedom freemen Fugitive Slave law fugitive slaves gentleman Government Henry Clay honorable human importation of slaves institutions John John Rutledge John Swanwick justice Kansas labor land legislation legislature liberty Massachusetts master measure ment Mexico Missouri compromise moral nations negro never North Northern object opinion opposed party passed persons petition petitioners political present President principles prohibited proposed proposition provision Quakers question race regulations resolution Samuel Sitgreaves Senator sentiment slave trade slaveholding society South Carolina Southern sovereignty Speaker speech stitution subject of slavery Supreme Court territory Thomas Fitzsimons tion treaty Union United violation Virginia vote Whigs whole Wilmot proviso
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Seite 45 - 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 meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Seite 375 - 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...
Seite 396 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Seite 372 - 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 380 - The general words above quoted would seem to embrace the whole human family, and if they were used in a similar instrument at this day would be so understood. But it is too clear for dispute that the enslaved African race were not intended to be included and formed no part of the people who framed and adopted this Declaration...
Seite 371 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Seite 211 - Now, as to California and New Mexico, I hold slavery to be excluded from those Territories by a law even superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas. I mean the law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth.
Seite 219 - In all its history it has been beneficent; it has trodden down no man's liberty ; it has crushed no State. Its daily respiration is liberty and patriotism ; its yet youthful veins are full of enterprise, courage, and honorable love of glory and renown. Large before, the country has now, by recent events, become vastly larger. This Republic now extends, with a vast breadth across the whole continent. The two great seas of the world wash the one and the other shore. We realize, on a mighty scale, the...
Seite 148 - ... passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents. All the laws passed by the legislative assembly and governor shall be submitted to the congress of the United States, and, if disapproved, shall be null and of no effect.
Seite 371 - 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...