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... common constitution . To have summarily confiscated the property in slaves already in the Territory , would have been an act of gross in- justice , and contrary to the practice of the older States of the Union which have abolished ...
... common constitution . To have summarily confiscated the property in slaves already in the Territory , would have been an act of gross in- justice , and contrary to the practice of the older States of the Union which have abolished ...
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... common defense . In the present crisis of the country it is our duty to confine our appropriations to objects of this character , unless in cases where justice to individuals may demand a different course . In all cases care ought to be ...
... common defense . In the present crisis of the country it is our duty to confine our appropriations to objects of this character , unless in cases where justice to individuals may demand a different course . In all cases care ought to be ...
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... common center on the Mississippi , the next desirable object was to find some common point west of that river from which a main stem could be projected passing westward to California . If you started out from St. Louis west you must ...
... common center on the Mississippi , the next desirable object was to find some common point west of that river from which a main stem could be projected passing westward to California . If you started out from St. Louis west you must ...
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... common to the different tribes which have been relocated , and the payment of large money annuities for the cessions made by them ; the first tending directly to prevent the Indians from acquiring settled habits and an idea of per ...
... common to the different tribes which have been relocated , and the payment of large money annuities for the cessions made by them ; the first tending directly to prevent the Indians from acquiring settled habits and an idea of per ...
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... common country , the claims of justice , and the obligations of States ; and it is our boast to - day , that we can present a record unstained with a single evidence of violated faith or at- tempted wrong . The same regard for truth ...
... common country , the claims of justice , and the obligations of States ; and it is our boast to - day , that we can present a record unstained with a single evidence of violated faith or at- tempted wrong . The same regard for truth ...
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Seite 75 - ... inquire whether the Constitution has been preserved inviolate in every part, during the last septenary (including the year of their service) ; and whether the legislative and executive branches of government have performed their duty, as guardians of the people, or assumed to themselves, or exercised, other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the Constitution...
Seite 5 - ... 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 170 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain.
Seite 182 - 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 ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Seite 145 - Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Seite 71 - In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.
Seite 3 - ... the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists : and in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Seite 88 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Seite 5 - then the article providing for Slavery shall be stricken from the constitution by the president of this Convention ;" and it is expressly declared that " no Slavery shall exist in the State of Kansas, except that the right of property in slaves now in the Territory shall in no manner be interfered with...
Seite 4 - Nebraska; and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...