Representative American Orations to Illustrate American Political HistoryAlexander Johnston G.P. Putnam & sons, 1887 |
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... population had been very rapidly decreas- ing in the North and not in the South , and that the gradual abolition of slavery was proceeding in the North alone , and that with increasing rapidity 4 THE ANTI - SLAVERY STRUGGLE .
... population had been very rapidly decreas- ing in the North and not in the South , and that the gradual abolition of slavery was proceeding in the North alone , and that with increasing rapidity 4 THE ANTI - SLAVERY STRUGGLE .
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Alexander Johnston. in the North alone , and that with increasing rapidity . But there was no positive evidence that the South was bulwarked in favor of slav- ery ; there was no certainty but that the South would in its turn and in due ...
Alexander Johnston. in the North alone , and that with increasing rapidity . But there was no positive evidence that the South was bulwarked in favor of slav- ery ; there was no certainty but that the South would in its turn and in due ...
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... increased the efficiency of this labor hundreds of times , and it became evident at once that the South enjoyed a ... increasing rigor , until , just before 1860 , its 6 THE ANTI - SLAVERY STRUGGLE .
... increased the efficiency of this labor hundreds of times , and it became evident at once that the South enjoyed a ... increasing rigor , until , just before 1860 , its 6 THE ANTI - SLAVERY STRUGGLE .
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Alexander Johnston. increasing rigor , until , just before 1860 , its last development took the form of legal ... increase of rigor , there was a steady change in the character of the system . It tended very steadily to lose its ...
Alexander Johnston. increasing rigor , until , just before 1860 , its last development took the form of legal ... increase of rigor , there was a steady change in the character of the system . It tended very steadily to lose its ...
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... increased the number of petitions , by providing a new grievance to be petitioned against , and in 1842 the " gag rule " was rescinded . Thence- forth the pro - slavery members of Congress could do nothing , and could only become more ...
... increased the number of petitions , by providing a new grievance to be petitioned against , and in 1842 the " gag rule " was rescinded . Thence- forth the pro - slavery members of Congress could do nothing , and could only become more ...
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abolition of slavery Abolitionists admission adopted agitation amendment American antislavery argument believe called cause character citizen claim committee compact compromise acts compromise of 1850 Congress Constitution debate declared Democratic denounced discussion doctrine Douglas duty effect eighth section exist Faneuil Hall feel Free Soil party freedom friends Fugitive Slave Fugitive Slave Law G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Garrison gentleman Government honor House influence justice Kansas labor legislation legislatures Lovejoy majority Massachusetts measures ment Mexico Missouri act Missouri compromise Missouri prohibition Nebraska bill never North Northern object opinion organization party peace political portion present President principle provision regard repeal Republic resolutions secession Senator from Illinois Senator from South sentiment sion slave power slave-holding slavery question South Carolina Southern speak speech Sumner Territories Texas thing tion Union United utter violation vote Whigs whole William Lloyd Garrison Wilmot proviso
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Seite 85 - ... for I am looking out for no fragment upon which to float away from the wreck, if wreck there must be, but for the good of the whole, and the preservation of the whole; and...
Seite 202 - That the constitution and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Kansas as elsewhere within the United States...
Seite 111 - ... without convulsion, may look the next hour to see the heavenly bodies rush from their spheres, and jostle against each other in the realms of space, without causing the wreck of the universe. There can be no such thing as a peaceable secession.
Seite 208 - Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall hereafter be introduced into this state, otherwise than for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; nor shall any male person arrived at the age of twenty-one years, nor female person arrived at the age of eighteen years, be held to serve . any person as a servant, under any indenture hereafter made, unless...
Seite 137 - I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — and I will be heard.
Seite 94 - 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 46 - I have, Senators, believed from the first, that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion.
Seite 79 - Having now shown what cannot save the Union, I return to the question with which I commenced, How can the Union be saved? There is but one way by which it can with any certainty; and that is, by a full and final settlement, on the principles of justice, of all the questions at issue between the two sections.
Seite 115 - To break up this great government ! to dismember this glorious country ! to astonish Europe with an act of folly such as Europe for two centuries has .never beheld in any government or any people! No, Sir! no, Sir! There will be no secession ! Gentlemen are not serious when they talk of secession.
Seite 202 - States, except the section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which was superseded by the principles of the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise measures, and is declared inoperative.