Representative American Orations to Illustrate American Political HistoryAlexander Johnston G.P. Putnam & sons, 1887 |
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... protect property in negroes , while the home govern- ment , to the very last , actively protected and encouraged the slave trade to the colonies . Negro slavery in all the colonies had thus passed from custom to law before the American ...
... protect property in negroes , while the home govern- ment , to the very last , actively protected and encouraged the slave trade to the colonies . Negro slavery in all the colonies had thus passed from custom to law before the American ...
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... protection to emi- grants ; and Douglas , chairman of the Senate committee on Territories , introduced a bill for such organization in January , 1854. Both these prospective Territories had been made free soil forever by the compromise ...
... protection to emi- grants ; and Douglas , chairman of the Senate committee on Territories , introduced a bill for such organization in January , 1854. Both these prospective Territories had been made free soil forever by the compromise ...
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... protection of property ; that Congress had no rights or duties in the territories but such as were granted or ... protect slavery in the Territories . This was just the ground which had 28 THE ANTI - SLAVERY STRUGGLE .
... protection of property ; that Congress had no rights or duties in the territories but such as were granted or ... protect slavery in the Territories . This was just the ground which had 28 THE ANTI - SLAVERY STRUGGLE .
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... protection of slavery in the Terri- tories . The remainder of the Democratic con- vention nominated Douglas , with a declaration of its willingness to submit to the decision of the Supreme Court on questions of constitu- tional law ...
... protection of slavery in the Terri- tories . The remainder of the Democratic con- vention nominated Douglas , with a declaration of its willingness to submit to the decision of the Supreme Court on questions of constitu- tional law ...
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... protection . The Mayor acknowledged that he could not protect them . They asked him if it was law- ful for them to defend themselves . He told them it was , and sanctioned their assembling in arms to do so . They were not , then , a mob ...
... protection . The Mayor acknowledged that he could not protect them . They asked him if it was law- ful for them to defend themselves . He told them it was , and sanctioned their assembling in arms to do so . They were not , then , a mob ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
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.