Sketches in North America: With Some Account of Congress and of the Slavery QuestionLongman, Green, Longman, & Roberts, 1861 - 320 Seiten |
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... long messages re- quiring the particular attention of the inhabi- tants of the city of New York - the President's message , the State Governor's , and the Mayor's . · New territories are being settled , for each of 52 SKETCHES IN.
... long messages re- quiring the particular attention of the inhabi- tants of the city of New York - the President's message , the State Governor's , and the Mayor's . · New territories are being settled , for each of 52 SKETCHES IN.
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With Some Account of Congress and of the Slavery Question Hugo Reid. · New territories are being settled , for each of which laws and a constitution are wanted ; the settlers are turned into as many Solons , and on the principle of go ...
With Some Account of Congress and of the Slavery Question Hugo Reid. · New territories are being settled , for each of which laws and a constitution are wanted ; the settlers are turned into as many Solons , and on the principle of go ...
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... state of the slavery question , and in respect to secession spoke as follows : - " The position taken by the Republican party on this floor , of excluding slavery from all the territories which now belong to us , or NORTH AMERICA . 107.
... state of the slavery question , and in respect to secession spoke as follows : - " The position taken by the Republican party on this floor , of excluding slavery from all the territories which now belong to us , or NORTH AMERICA . 107.
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... territories acquired by the common blood and treasure of the nation , that slavery will linger out a poor and miserable ... territory in this Union if you will allow it , or outside of the Union , if they must . Upon the supposition that ...
... territories acquired by the common blood and treasure of the nation , that slavery will linger out a poor and miserable ... territory in this Union if you will allow it , or outside of the Union , if they must . Upon the supposition that ...
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... action of Congress , or any committee thereof , for or against the passage of any law appertaining to the rights of any State or territory , and whether the President has failed or refused to compel the 120 SKETCHES IN.
... action of Congress , or any committee thereof , for or against the passage of any law appertaining to the rights of any State or territory , and whether the President has failed or refused to compel the 120 SKETCHES IN.
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 106 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Seite 211 - 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 145 - No member shall speak more than once to the same question without leave of the House, unless he be the mover, proposer, or introducer of the matter pending, in which case he shall be permitted to speak in reply, but not until every member choosing to speak shall have spoken.
Seite 145 - No member shall occupy more than one hour in debate on any question in the House, or in committee: but a member reporting the measure under consideration from a committee may open and close the debate...
Seite 175 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Seite 146 - Whilst the Speaker is putting any question, or addressing the House, none shall walk out of, or across the House ; nor in such case, or when a member is speaking, shall entertain private discourse ; nor, whilst a member is speaking, shall pass between him and the Chair.
Seite 103 - 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 179 - They have fallen into the common error of enthusiasts, that of taking too narrow views, of feeling as if no evil existed but that which they opposed, and as if no guilt could be compared with that of countenancing or upholding it.
Seite 31 - ... such information and references as may be useful in judging of the propriety of renewing his application, or of altering his specification to embrace only that part of the invention or discovery which is new.