A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United States: From the Declaration of Independence to the Present Day. Mainly Compiled and Condensed from the Journals of Congress and Other Official Records, and Showing the Vote by Yeas and Nays on the Most Important Divisions in Either HouseDix, Edwards & Company, 1856 - 164 Seiten |
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... Kansas - Nebraska Bill , President Pierce's Special Kansas Message , Mr. Douglas's Senate Report thereon , Mr. Collamer's Minority Report , The Kansas Investigation - Mr . Dunn's proposition - Yeas and Nays thereon , Report of the ...
... Kansas - Nebraska Bill , President Pierce's Special Kansas Message , Mr. Douglas's Senate Report thereon , Mr. Collamer's Minority Report , The Kansas Investigation - Mr . Dunn's proposition - Yeas and Nays thereon , Report of the ...
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... Kansas , corruptions of her ballot - boxes , and outrages upon her people , which have earned for their authors the ap- pellation of Border Ruffians . X. THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS . THE name of Texas was originally applied to a Spanish ...
... Kansas , corruptions of her ballot - boxes , and outrages upon her people , which have earned for their authors the ap- pellation of Border Ruffians . X. THE ANNEXATION OF TEXAS . THE name of Texas was originally applied to a Spanish ...
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... KANSAS - NEBRASKA STRUGGLE . OUT of the Louisiana Territory , since the admission first of Louisiana and then of Mis- souri as Slave States , there had been formed the Territories of Arkansas , Iowa , and Min- nesota ; the first without ...
... KANSAS - NEBRASKA STRUGGLE . OUT of the Louisiana Territory , since the admission first of Louisiana and then of Mis- souri as Slave States , there had been formed the Territories of Arkansas , Iowa , and Min- nesota ; the first without ...
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... whether Slavery is prohibited in the Ne gard as the settled policy of the Government , sanc - braska country by valid enactment . The deck Supreme Court , without regard to the value of the THE KANSAS - NEBRASKA STRUGGLE . 73.
... whether Slavery is prohibited in the Ne gard as the settled policy of the Government , sanc - braska country by valid enactment . The deck Supreme Court , without regard to the value of the THE KANSAS - NEBRASKA STRUGGLE . 73.
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... of Ky . had moved to insert a clause directly and plainly repealing the Mis- Evans , Fish , Fitzpatrick , Douglas , Shields Slidell , Smith , Stuart , Foot , Gwin , Toucey , Walker , Hamlin , THE KANSAS - NEBRASKA STRUGGLE . 75.
... of Ky . had moved to insert a clause directly and plainly repealing the Mis- Evans , Fish , Fitzpatrick , Douglas , Shields Slidell , Smith , Stuart , Foot , Gwin , Toucey , Walker , Hamlin , THE KANSAS - NEBRASKA STRUGGLE . 75.
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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 84 - 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...
Seite 147 - Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction.
Seite 26 - ... 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 21 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in 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, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Seite 147 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety- and happiness.
Seite 147 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Seite 83 - Nebraska, or to affect the authority of the government of the United States to make any regulations respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to the government to make if this act had never passed.
Seite 84 - Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory; but the qualifications of voters and of holding office at all subsequent elections shall be such as shall be prescribed by the legislative assembly: Provided, That the right of suffrage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States...
Seite 86 - March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void...