Address of the Hon. C. G. Memminger, Special Commissioner from the State of South Carolina: Before the Assembled Authorities of the State of Virginia, January 19, 1860, Band 5251860 - 43 Seiten |
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... northern people , which you doubtless expected , " the assaults upon the institution of slavery and upon the rights and equality of the southern states , have unceasingly continued , with increasing vio- lence , and in new and more ...
... northern people , which you doubtless expected , " the assaults upon the institution of slavery and upon the rights and equality of the southern states , have unceasingly continued , with increasing vio- lence , and in new and more ...
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... northern opinion do not stop here . The sentence of death upon the criminals and their execution are bewailed with sounds of lamentation , such as would now follow a Ridley or a Latimer to the stake , and public demonstrations of ...
... northern opinion do not stop here . The sentence of death upon the criminals and their execution are bewailed with sounds of lamentation , such as would now follow a Ridley or a Latimer to the stake , and public demonstrations of ...
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... northern section had no territory but that from which has since been formed the states of Vermont and Maine . The southern owned the northwest and the southwest ; and had in its possession the means of expand- ing itself into the ...
... northern section had no territory but that from which has since been formed the states of Vermont and Maine . The southern owned the northwest and the southwest ; and had in its possession the means of expand- ing itself into the ...
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... northern states having but two new states to add to their original seven , would have numbered nine in all . Hence it would have followed that the south would now have had 30 senators and 122 representatives in congress , whilst the ...
... northern states having but two new states to add to their original seven , would have numbered nine in all . Hence it would have followed that the south would now have had 30 senators and 122 representatives in congress , whilst the ...
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... northern portion of the Union was reserved to themselves . Surely , if there could be created a sentiment of gratitude and brotherly love in states , that sentiment should have existed in the northern states towards the people of the ...
... northern portion of the Union was reserved to themselves . Surely , if there could be created a sentiment of gratitude and brotherly love in states , that sentiment should have existed in the northern states towards the people of the ...
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abolition of slavery action admission of Texas adopted arms assassin assembly of Virginia authorities blood C. G. MEMMINGER cession commissioner common defence compromise measures compromise of 1850 concession confederates conference constitution convention crime declared delegates district of Columbia duty earnest effect election electoral college enactment enemy exhibited Extract fanaticism favor federal government formed fugitive slaves ginia governor governor of Virginia Harpers Ferry honor independence institution of slavery invasion JANUARY 21 Jefferson judgment justice kindly feeling legislature Lord Brougham master Missouri compromise noble friend non-slaveholding northern object ordinance ordinance of nullification party patriotic perfect union political present president proposed request resistance resolutions of 1847 Resolved unanimously respect restore result secure seized senate sister slave trade slaveholding slavery in Texas soil South Carolina southern conference southern congress stand sympathy territory Texan tion treaty United voice vote whilst whole south Wilmot proviso
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Seite 17 - 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 30 - July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven ; and shall be subject to all the conditions and restrictions and prohibitions in said articles of compact imposed upon the people of the said Territory.
Seite 21 - I regret that I am now to die in the belief that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776 to acquire selfgovernment and happiness to their country is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be that I live not to weep over it.
Seite 20 - But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union. It is hushed, indeed, for the moment. But this is a reprieve only, not a final sentence. A geographical line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived and held up to the angry passions of men, will never be obliterated ; and every new irritation will mark it deeper and deeper.
Seite 43 - FREEDOM! thou art not, as poets dream, A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs, And wavy tresses gushing from the cap With which the Roman master crowned his slave When he took off the gyves. A bearded man, Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow, Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred With tokens of old wars; thy massive limbs Are strong with struggling. Power at thee has launched His bolts, and with his lightnings smitten...
Seite 9 - An Ordinance to Nullify certain acts of the Congress of the United States, purporting to be laws laying duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities.
Seite 31 - ... it shall not be lawful to bring into the District of Columbia any slave whatever, for the purpose of being sold, or for the purpose of being placed in depot, to be subsequently transferred to any other State or place to be sold as merchandize.
Seite 20 - I had for a long time ceased to read newspapers, or pay any attention to public affairs, confident they were in good hands, and content to be a passenger in our bark to the shore from which I am not distant. But this momentous question, like a fire-bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
Seite 9 - State of the Union, as a sufficient pledge that their Representatives in Congress will so modify the acts laying duties and imposts on the importation of foreign commodities...
Seite 30 - ... their rights of property, to take firm, 'united and concerted action in this emergency.