Presidential Candidates: Containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860A.B. Burdick, 1859 - 354 Seiten |
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... convention , in which he first argued that the aggrandizement of the slaveholding class , to the detriment of the rest of the people of the coun- try , is a perversion of the Constitution . He then , in a masterly style , gave a sketch ...
... convention , in which he first argued that the aggrandizement of the slaveholding class , to the detriment of the rest of the people of the coun- try , is a perversion of the Constitution . He then , in a masterly style , gave a sketch ...
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... Convention of the Democratic party in his dis- trict . The time was peculiarly unfavorable to him , for the country was in a whirlpool of agitation and the Democratic party of Illinois on many questions of the day , sided with the Whigs ...
... Convention of the Democratic party in his dis- trict . The time was peculiarly unfavorable to him , for the country was in a whirlpool of agitation and the Democratic party of Illinois on many questions of the day , sided with the Whigs ...
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... convention , was concerned , I have always been . under the impression that it was fair and just in its provi sions . I have always thought the people should have gone together , en masse , and voted for delegates , so that the voice ...
... convention , was concerned , I have always been . under the impression that it was fair and just in its provi sions . I have always thought the people should have gone together , en masse , and voted for delegates , so that the voice ...
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... convention , although not an unlawful assemblage , is not a legal convention to make a government , and hence we are under no obligation to go and express any opinion about it . They had a right to say , if they chose , ' We will stay ...
... convention , although not an unlawful assemblage , is not a legal convention to make a government , and hence we are under no obligation to go and express any opinion about it . They had a right to say , if they chose , ' We will stay ...
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... convention , but from that vote of the people to which it was to be submitted for their acceptance or rejection . How is it to be submitted ? It shall be submitted in this form : ' Constitution with Slavery , or Constitution with no ...
... convention , but from that vote of the people to which it was to be submitted for their acceptance or rejection . How is it to be submitted ? It shall be submitted in this form : ' Constitution with Slavery , or Constitution with no ...
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Seite 113 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 73 - 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 227 - 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 whom such service or labor may be due.
Seite 113 - ... not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs and wax young again, entering the glorious ways of truth and prosperous virtue destined to become great and honourable in these latter ages.
Seite 35 - Orleans become marts for legitimate merchandise alone, or-else the rye fields and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave culture and to the production of slaves, and Boston and New York become once more markets for trade in the bodies and souls of men.
Seite 66 - New States of convenient .size, not exceeding 4 in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution. And such States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of 36° 30' north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or...
Seite 326 - I will not characterize that class at the North with that term; but you have it; it is there; it is everywhere; it is eternal.
Seite 35 - Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Seite 229 - July, the ordinance of 1787 was passed, "for the government of the United States territory northwest of the river Ohio," with but one dissenting vote. This instrument provided there should be organized in the territory not less than three nor more than five States, designating their boundaries. It was passed while the federal convention was in session, about two months before the constitution was adopted by the convention. The members of the convention must therefore have been well acquainted with...
Seite 67 - Ocean ; and the said eighth section, together with the compromise therein effected, is hereby revived and declared to be in full force and binding for the future organization of the Territories of the United States, in the same sense and with the same understanding with which it was originally adopted.