A Political Text Book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential Nominations and Elections: Including All the National Platforms Ever Yet Adopted: Also, a History of the Struggle Respecting Slavery in the Territories, and of the Action of Congress as to the Freedom of the Public Lands, with the Most Notable Speeches and Letters of Messrs. Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Cass, Seward ... Etc., Touching the Questions of the Day and Returns of All Presidential Elections Since 1836 |
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... of keeping ourselves free from all entangling alliances with foreign countries , I
form in the following letter . and of never quitting our own to stand upon foreign
WASHINGTON , June 24th , 1852 . ground ; that our mission as a republic is not ...
... of keeping ourselves free from all entangling alliances with foreign countries , I
form in the following letter . and of never quitting our own to stand upon foreign
WASHINGTON , June 24th , 1852 . ground ; that our mission as a republic is not ...
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Are we not divided , and divided all likely to be carried by the Democratic party in
such a manner that we can never be reconciled , be . . in the Presidential election
. We beg to make these recause we are divided upon principle ! Can we agree ...
Are we not divided , and divided all likely to be carried by the Democratic party in
such a manner that we can never be reconciled , be . . in the Presidential election
. We beg to make these recause we are divided upon principle ! Can we agree ...
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... Arkansas to represent said Democracy in the sent said Democracy in the when
it was well known that said States never heretofore , Convention of the
Democracy of the United States , assemand probably would never hereafter give
a single ...
... Arkansas to represent said Democracy in the sent said Democracy in the when
it was well known that said States never heretofore , Convention of the
Democracy of the United States , assemand probably would never hereafter give
a single ...
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May I be indulged in one his colleagues , as follows : remark ? My voice is “
Never give up the ship ” - apMR . PRESIDENT , AND FELLOW DEMOCRATS : As
I stated to plause ) — though the fearful storm rages around usyou a few
moments ...
May I be indulged in one his colleagues , as follows : remark ? My voice is “
Never give up the ship ” - apMR . PRESIDENT , AND FELLOW DEMOCRATS : As
I stated to plause ) — though the fearful storm rages around usyou a few
moments ...
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We can Florida , some in North Carolina , and I will also show never make
another Slave State with our present supply | you the pure African , the noblest
Roman of them all of slaves . But if we could , it would not be wise , for the ( Great
...
We can Florida , some in North Carolina , and I will also show never make
another Slave State with our present supply | you the pure African , the noblest
Roman of them all of slaves . But if we could , it would not be wise , for the ( Great
...
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Seite 201 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments.
Seite 249 - Government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no farther 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...
Seite 113 - 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 63 - ... 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 26 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Seite 249 - Resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Seite 58 - 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 76 - States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire. And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery or involuntary servitude (except for crime) shall be prohibited.
Seite 177 - The Congress, the executive, and the court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Seite 141 - That the legislative power of the territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation consistent with the constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act...
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| Titel | A Political Text Book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential Nominations and Elections: Including All the National Platforms Ever Yet Adopted: Also, a History of the Struggle Respecting Slavery in the Territories, and of the Action of Congress as to the Freedom of the Public Lands ... |
| Zusammengestellt von | Horace Greeley |
| Verlag | Tribune association, 1860 |
| Original von | University of California |
| Digitalisiert | 30. Mai 2007 |
| Länge | 254 Seiten |
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