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... equal to $ 1,476,417 , leaving upwards of two mil- lions nearly three millions of dollars yielded by this State to the nation . Take another State , Missouri . It appears that down to January , 1849 , 39,635,609 acres had been pro ...
... equal to $ 1,476,417 , leaving upwards of two mil- lions nearly three millions of dollars yielded by this State to the nation . Take another State , Missouri . It appears that down to January , 1849 , 39,635,609 acres had been pro ...
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... equal to the service I have un- dertaken . I am not sure that it is now , but I desire to try . And now again I say , the question is simply wheth- er I shall be heard . In allowing me this privilege , — this right , I may say , you do ...
... equal to the service I have un- dertaken . I am not sure that it is now , but I desire to try . And now again I say , the question is simply wheth- er I shall be heard . In allowing me this privilege , — this right , I may say , you do ...
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... equal consciousness of duty done ! I beg leave to offer the following resolutions . Resolved , unanimously , That the Senate mourns the death of Hon . ROBERT RANTOUL , JR . , late a member of the House of Representatives from ...
... equal consciousness of duty done ! I beg leave to offer the following resolutions . Resolved , unanimously , That the Senate mourns the death of Hon . ROBERT RANTOUL , JR . , late a member of the House of Representatives from ...
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... equal laws . Amidst the vicissitudes of public affairs I shall hold fast always to this idea , and to any political party which truly embraces it . Party does not constrain me ; nor is my indepen- dence lessened by any relations to the ...
... equal laws . Amidst the vicissitudes of public affairs I shall hold fast always to this idea , and to any political party which truly embraces it . Party does not constrain me ; nor is my indepen- dence lessened by any relations to the ...
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... equal fervor they should be echoed now by every Amer- ican not already a slave . But , Sir , this effort is impotent as tyrannical . Con- victions of the heart cannot be repressed . Utterances of conscience must be heard . They break ...
... equal fervor they should be echoed now by every Amer- ican not already a slave . But , Sir , this effort is impotent as tyrannical . Con- victions of the heart cannot be repressed . Utterances of conscience must be heard . They break ...
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Seite 365 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Seite 279 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six 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 12 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Seite 185 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : 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 373 - The Congress, the executive and the court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Seite 145 - It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Seite 149 - 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 521 - ... and every stipulation by which any seaman consents to abandon his right to wages in the case of the loss of the ship, or to abandon any right which he may have or obtain in the nature of salvage, shall be wholly inoperative.
Seite 259 - Parliament, do pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true, ancient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom...
Seite 286 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise 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...