The Nebraska QuestionRed-field, 1854 - 120 Seiten |
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... President of the United States , on or before the fourth Monday in November next , an authentic Copy of the said Act ; upon the receipt whereof the President , by proclamation , shall announce the fact ; whereupon , and without any ...
... President of the United States , on or before the fourth Monday in November next , an authentic Copy of the said Act ; upon the receipt whereof the President , by proclamation , shall announce the fact ; whereupon , and without any ...
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... President vote of 121 to 82 , most of the Southern mem- Polk . The Territory has since been divided , bers voting to concur with the Senate in estab- and the Territorial Government of Washington lishing the Missouri compromise line ...
... President vote of 121 to 82 , most of the Southern mem- Polk . The Territory has since been divided , bers voting to concur with the Senate in estab- and the Territorial Government of Washington lishing the Missouri compromise line ...
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... PRESIDENT : Four years ago , California , a Mexican Province , scarcely inhabited and quite un- explored , was unknown even to our usually immod- erate desires , except by a harbor , capacious and tranquil , which only statesmen then ...
... PRESIDENT : Four years ago , California , a Mexican Province , scarcely inhabited and quite un- explored , was unknown even to our usually immod- erate desires , except by a harbor , capacious and tranquil , which only statesmen then ...
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... President . Only a year ago , it was complained that the exercise of the military power to maintain law and order in Cali- fornia , was a fearful innovation . But now the wind has changed , and blows even stronger from the oppo- site ...
... President . Only a year ago , it was complained that the exercise of the military power to maintain law and order in Cali- fornia , was a fearful innovation . But now the wind has changed , and blows even stronger from the oppo- site ...
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... President and the Senate . Entertain- ing this view , I must insist that the constitutionality of the annexation of Texas itself shall be cleared up before I can agree to the admission of any new States to be formed within Texas . Mr ...
... President and the Senate . Entertain- ing this view , I must insist that the constitutionality of the annexation of Texas itself shall be cleared up before I can agree to the admission of any new States to be formed within Texas . Mr ...
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Seite 57 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Seite 32 - ... and each of the said district courts shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction, in all cases arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States...
Seite 81 - 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 111 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Seite 31 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Seite 30 - ... beginning at a point on the western boundary of the State of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude crosses the same ; thence west on said parallel to the...
Seite 50 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Seite 44 - States, except the section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which was superseded by the principles of the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise measures, and is declared inoperative.
Seite 6 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States...
Seite 14 - That the provisions of an act entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...