The Sectional Controversy: Or, Passages in the Political History of the United StatesC. Scribner, 1863 - 269 Seiten |
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... increasing the evil , first by a commercial con- test with the latter nation , by a non - intercourse act , and by an embargo of ninety days , in the way of reprisal , and then by the declaration of war . To these measures the Northern ...
... increasing the evil , first by a commercial con- test with the latter nation , by a non - intercourse act , and by an embargo of ninety days , in the way of reprisal , and then by the declaration of war . To these measures the Northern ...
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... increase the representation of slaves . " This referred to the admission of Louisiana . The Legislatures of Massachusetts and Connecticut , on re- ceiving the report of the Hartford Convention , sent commission- ers to Washington ; the ...
... increase the representation of slaves . " This referred to the admission of Louisiana . The Legislatures of Massachusetts and Connecticut , on re- ceiving the report of the Hartford Convention , sent commission- ers to Washington ; the ...
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... increase of their number . The Northern States were under the influence of a great political temptation to do a great political wrong to Missouri and the slave States . The people of the North , generally , were prepared to enter into ...
... increase of their number . The Northern States were under the influence of a great political temptation to do a great political wrong to Missouri and the slave States . The people of the North , generally , were prepared to enter into ...
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... increasing the political power of the South . Under the influence of this fear , on the part of demagogues in Con- gress , the evils of slavery were magnified , and the constitutional powers of Congress were distorted , until the ...
... increasing the political power of the South . Under the influence of this fear , on the part of demagogues in Con- gress , the evils of slavery were magnified , and the constitutional powers of Congress were distorted , until the ...
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... increase of duties . In the mean time Massachusetts , and New England gen- erally , though extensively opposed to the tariff of 1824 , had ex- perienced a change in their interests or in their political pur- poses , so that they were ...
... increase of duties . In the mean time Massachusetts , and New England gen- erally , though extensively opposed to the tariff of 1824 , had ex- perienced a change in their interests or in their political pur- poses , so that they were ...
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abolish slavery abolition of slavery Abolitionists ADAMS administration admission admit adopted agitation amendment Articles of Confederation authority citizens CLAY Colonies committee compact Confederacy Confederation Congress Connecticut Convention declared delegates District of Columbia disunion duties election England equal ernment exercise existence favor Federal Government fugitive slave law fugitive slaves gentlemen Georgia GOUVERNEUR MORRIS Hartford Convention House independent institutions interests JEFFERSON JOHN QUINCY ADAMS language legislation Legislature Louisiana MADISON manufactures Massachusetts measure ment Missouri Compromise Northern members object opinion opposed opposition party passed peace Pennsylvania petitions political portion present President principles proposed protection question ratified repeal Republican resolutions respect revenue Rhode Island secession sectional feelings Senate SLADE slaveholders South Carolina Southern sovereign sovereignty speech spirit stitution subject of slavery tariff laws tariff of 1828 territory thing tion Union United Vermont violation Virginia vote Washington WEBSTER whole Wilmot proviso
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Seite 204 - I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Seite 246 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Seite 211 - 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 mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Seite 45 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Seite 26 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Seite 60 - Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Seite 211 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.
Seite 223 - Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Seite 165 - I speak to-day for the preservation of the Union. "Hear me for my cause." I speak to-day, out of a solicitous and anxious heart, for the restoration to the country of that quiet and that harmony which make the blessings of this Union so rich, and so dear to us all.
Seite 39 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...