Proceedings of the Great Union Meeting Held in the Large Saloon of the Chinese Museum: Philadelphia, on the 21st of November 1850. Under a Call Signed by Upwards of Five Thousand Citizens, Whose Names are Appended to the ProceedingsB. Mifflin, printer, 1850 - 83 Seiten |
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... carry law into effect , thus it is our duty to sustain the law by aiding the government . He , therefore , had no further duty to perform than to declare the meeting organized , and ready to pro- ceed to business . MR . DALLAS , on ...
... carry law into effect , thus it is our duty to sustain the law by aiding the government . He , therefore , had no further duty to perform than to declare the meeting organized , and ready to pro- ceed to business . MR . DALLAS , on ...
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... carry this constitutional provision into effect . When State legislation was repealed , a duty devolved upon Con ... carrying out the regular proceedings of their representatives , TO VINDICATE THE SUPREMACY AND THE SOVE- REIGNTY OF THE ...
... carry this constitutional provision into effect . When State legislation was repealed , a duty devolved upon Con ... carrying out the regular proceedings of their representatives , TO VINDICATE THE SUPREMACY AND THE SOVE- REIGNTY OF THE ...
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... jeopard all that is dear to us . The present Fugitive Bill should be honestly carried out by the Judicial authority of the country , and the exercise of that power should be strengthened by public opinion . This is the 15.
... jeopard all that is dear to us . The present Fugitive Bill should be honestly carried out by the Judicial authority of the country , and the exercise of that power should be strengthened by public opinion . This is the 15.
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... carry out the object of the Law . A discrimination has been made between fugitives from justice and fugitives from service and labor , that is totally unauthorised ; this evil must be remedied , and the same salutary rules which are ...
... carry out the object of the Law . A discrimination has been made between fugitives from justice and fugitives from service and labor , that is totally unauthorised ; this evil must be remedied , and the same salutary rules which are ...
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... carried into execution if the fear that an innocent man may be charged with the commission of the offence , shall arrest it ... carry out the Constitution of the country . A people who have been described as possessing more knowledge and ...
... carried into execution if the fear that an innocent man may be charged with the commission of the offence , shall arrest it ... carry out the Constitution of the country . A people who have been described as possessing more knowledge and ...
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Seite 26 - The North has only to will it to accomplish it; to do justice by conceding to the South an equal right in the acquired territory, and to do her duty by causing the stipulations relative to fugitive slaves to be faithfully fulfilled; to cease the agitation of the slave question, and to provide for the insertion of a provision in the Constitution by an amendment which will restore to the South in substance the power she possessed of protecting herself, before the equilibrium between the sections was...
Seite 42 - I must also invite your attention to the painful excitement produced in the South, by attempts to circulate through the mails inflammatory appeals addressed to the passions of the slaves, in prints, and in various sorts of publications, calculated to stimulate them to insurrection, and to produce all the horrors of a servile war.
Seite 13 - The last clause of the 2d section of the 4th article of the constitution of the United States...
Seite 46 - Self-preservation is the first instinct of nature, and therefore any state of society in which the sword is all the time suspended over the heads of the people must at last become intolerable.
Seite 14 - Ghent it was agreed that all territory, places, and possessions taken by either party from the other during the war...
Seite 49 - No person held to service or labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to which such service or labor may be due." Roger Sherman pointed out that the return of runaway horses was not demanded with such specific concern, but he got no support from the other members of the Convention. Southern slavery may have been a "peculiar institution**...
Seite 44 - Proviso was interposed, to add fuel to the flame, and to excite the southern people to madness. ******* " It would be the extreme of dangerous infatuation to suppose that the Union was not then in serious danger. Had the Wilmot Proviso become a law, or had slavery been abolished in the District of Columbia, nothing short of a special interposition of Divine Providence could have prevented the secession of most, if not all the slaveholding States. " It was from this great and glorious old Commonwealth,...
Seite 17 - recommended it to the legislatures of the several States, to pass laws, making it expressly the duty of the keepers of their jails, to receive,' and safe keep therein, all prisoners committed under the authority of the United States, until they shall be discharged by due course of the laws thereof.
Seite 9 - AN ACT To AMEND, AND SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE ACT, ENTITLED, "AN ACT RESPECTING FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE, AND PERSONS ESCAPING FROM THE SERVICE OF THEIR MASTERS,
Seite 16 - An act to prevent kidnapping, preserve the public peace, prohibit the exercise of certain powers heretofore exercised by judges, justices of the peace, aldermen and jailors in this commonwealth, and to repeal certain slave laws.