Great Debates in American History: Slavery from 1790 to 1857Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
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... continue a distinct people and have separate interests . They are an inferior race even to the Indians . But some persons have been of opinion that if the further importation of slaves could be prohibited there would be a gradual ...
... continue a distinct people and have separate interests . They are an inferior race even to the Indians . But some persons have been of opinion that if the further importation of slaves could be prohibited there would be a gradual ...
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... continue their efforts ; let Congress say , with all civilized nations , they will joyfully bear a part to accomplish an object so desirable , so humane . But , sir , I am in favor of the resolution in a political point of view . Carry ...
... continue their efforts ; let Congress say , with all civilized nations , they will joyfully bear a part to accomplish an object so desirable , so humane . But , sir , I am in favor of the resolution in a political point of view . Carry ...
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... continue to hold them . With that subject the national legislature could not interfere , and ought not to at- tempt it . Sir , it is my wish to allay , not to excite , local ani- mosities ; but I shall never refrain from advancing such ...
... continue to hold them . With that subject the national legislature could not interfere , and ought not to at- tempt it . Sir , it is my wish to allay , not to excite , local ani- mosities ; but I shall never refrain from advancing such ...
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... continue , for our boasted Constitution connives at it ; but do not , for the sake of cotton and tobacco , let it be told to future ages that , while pre- tending to love liberty , we have purchased an extensive country to disgrace it ...
... continue , for our boasted Constitution connives at it ; but do not , for the sake of cotton and tobacco , let it be told to future ages that , while pre- tending to love liberty , we have purchased an extensive country to disgrace it ...
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... means of subsistence , and from its very nature must continue to do so until the end of time.1 ' The doctrine of the Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus . Apply these principles to the case before us , and IV - 5 THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE 65.
... means of subsistence , and from its very nature must continue to do so until the end of time.1 ' The doctrine of the Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus . Apply these principles to the case before us , and IV - 5 THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE 65.
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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...