Caucuses of 1860: A History of the National Political Conventions of the Current Presidential Campaign: Being a Complete Record of the Business of All the Conventions; with Sketches of Distinguished Men in Attendance Upon Them, and Descriptions of the Most Characteristic Scenes and Memorable EventsFollett, Foster, 1860 - 232 Seiten |
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... moved to lay this resolution on the table . A vote was taken by States on Payne's motion , and it prevailed by a beavy majority . This is a vote which indicates that the Fernando Wood and Cook delegations will have to remain outside the ...
... moved to lay this resolution on the table . A vote was taken by States on Payne's motion , and it prevailed by a beavy majority . This is a vote which indicates that the Fernando Wood and Cook delegations will have to remain outside the ...
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... moved about , he pulled the wires here and there , encouraging this man to pitch in and that one to subside . When he spoke he commanded universal attention . And I venture to guess that whenever his broad shoulders , shaggy head and ...
... moved about , he pulled the wires here and there , encouraging this man to pitch in and that one to subside . When he spoke he commanded universal attention . And I venture to guess that whenever his broad shoulders , shaggy head and ...
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... moved to lay the New York bachelor on the table . The Chair tol- erated this nonsense for some time , but at last interposed , and summarily shut down upon it . Mr. Vallandigham made an explanation of the action of the Executive ...
... moved to lay the New York bachelor on the table . The Chair tol- erated this nonsense for some time , but at last interposed , and summarily shut down upon it . Mr. Vallandigham made an explanation of the action of the Executive ...
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... moved to reconsider the motion to adopt the report , and to lay that motion on the table . Agreed to . Mr. North of Pennsylvania then moved that the rejected claimants for seats in this Convention be invited to take honorary 35.
... moved to reconsider the motion to adopt the report , and to lay that motion on the table . Agreed to . Mr. North of Pennsylvania then moved that the rejected claimants for seats in this Convention be invited to take honorary 35.
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... moved the following : Resolved , That the citizens of the several States when emigrating into a Federal Territory , retain the right to slave and other property which they take with them , until there is some prohibition by lawful ...
... moved the following : Resolved , That the citizens of the several States when emigrating into a Federal Territory , retain the right to slave and other property which they take with them , until there is some prohibition by lawful ...
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Seite 138 - 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 141 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Seite 224 - That the government of a Territory organized by an act of Congress is provisional and temporary, and during its existence all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legislation.
Seite 141 - That the new dogma that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States...
Seite 203 - Truth crushed to earth will rise again ; The eternal years of God are hers; While error wounded writhes in pain, And dies amid her worshippers.
Seite 141 - That, while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country...
Seite 44 - Resolved, That we, the Democracy of the Union, in Convention assembled, hereby declare our affirmance of the resolutions unanimously adopted and declared as a platform of principles by the Democratic Convention at Cincinnati, in the year 1856, believing that Democratic principles are unchangeable in their nature, when applied to the same...
Seite 141 - Congress to take prompt and efficient measures for the total and final suppression of that execrable traffic. 10. That in the recent vetoes, by their Federal Governors, of the acts of the Legislatures of Kansas and Nebraska, prohibiting slavery in those Territories, we find a practical illustration of the boasted Democratic principle of Non-intervention and Popular Sovereignty embodied in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and a demonstration of the deception and fraud involved therein.
Seite 64 - Inasmuch as differences of opinion exist in the democratic party as to the nature and extent of the powers of a territorial legislature, and as to the powers and duties of Congress, under the constitution of the United States, over the institution of slavery within the territories: 2. Resolved, That the democratic party will abide by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on the questions of constitutional law.
Seite 54 - Democratic party do hereby pledge themselves to use every means in their power to secure the passage of some bill, to the extent of the constitutional authority of Congress, for the construction of a Pacific railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, at the earliest practicable moment.