Speeches, Messages and Other Writings of the Hon. Albert G. Brown: A Senator in Congress from the State of MississippiJ. B. Smith & Company, 1859 - 610 Seiten |
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... SOVEREIGNTY - Speech in the House of Representatives , February 12 , 1850 , dissenting from certain views presented to the Senate by Mr. Cass LETTER TO HIS CONSTITUENTS ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA - Speech in the House of Representatives ...
... SOVEREIGNTY - Speech in the House of Representatives , February 12 , 1850 , dissenting from certain views presented to the Senate by Mr. Cass LETTER TO HIS CONSTITUENTS ADMISSION OF CALIFORNIA - Speech in the House of Representatives ...
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... sovereignty , and at once subversive of the best interest of the American people . View- ing the general government , then , as one of limited authority , entitled to exercise only such powers as are above specified , your committee ...
... sovereignty , and at once subversive of the best interest of the American people . View- ing the general government , then , as one of limited authority , entitled to exercise only such powers as are above specified , your committee ...
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... sovereignty , other than is allowed by the terms of that instrument , and yet no two of them agree as to what clause affords that guarantee . Your committee have also viewed with singular emotions the wonderful influence of this great ...
... sovereignty , other than is allowed by the terms of that instrument , and yet no two of them agree as to what clause affords that guarantee . Your committee have also viewed with singular emotions the wonderful influence of this great ...
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... sovereignty of the states and national government was not distinctly drawn , and the rights of the states were not at that period regarded with the same jealous eye as at present . And it was the encroachments of the general government ...
... sovereignty of the states and national government was not distinctly drawn , and the rights of the states were not at that period regarded with the same jealous eye as at present . And it was the encroachments of the general government ...
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... sovereignty over the territories reside ? In the people of the states , in their separate and distinct capacity as such , and in contradis- tinction to their general capacity as citizens of the United States . I maintain the sovereignty ...
... sovereignty over the territories reside ? In the people of the states , in their separate and distinct capacity as such , and in contradis- tinction to their general capacity as citizens of the United States . I maintain the sovereignty ...
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Seite 174 - Mexicans who, in the Territories aforesaid, shall not preserve the character of citizens of the Mexican Republic, conformably with what is stipulated in the preceding article, shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States...
Seite 129 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 431 - State, colony, district, or people, as a soldier, or as a marine or seaman, on board of any vessel of war, letter of marque, or privateer, every person, so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding three years...
Seite 501 - Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me : if thou wilt take the left hand, then I GENESIS 14 will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
Seite 132 - Delaware, December 7, 1787 ; Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787 ; New Jersey, December 18, 1787 ; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts, February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788 ; South Carolina, May 23, 1788 ; New...
Seite 481 - ... whether as private citizens or as public functionaries sworn to support the Constitution of the United States, to regard and to treat the third clause of the fourth article of that instrument, whenever applied to the case of a fugitive slave, as utterly null and void, and consequently as forming no part of the Constitution of the United States, whenever we are called upon or sworn to support it.
Seite 42 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Seite 369 - That every free white male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of said Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory...
Seite 360 - American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...
Seite 416 - 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...