The Life of Stephen A. DouglasHarper & Brothers, 1860 - 528 Seiten |
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... Wilmot Proviso , in every imaginable shape , was offered as an amendment to the bill , and always voted down . If every motion to insert it be not mentioned , the reader will not understand by the omission that it was not submitted on ...
... Wilmot Proviso , in every imaginable shape , was offered as an amendment to the bill , and always voted down . If every motion to insert it be not mentioned , the reader will not understand by the omission that it was not submitted on ...
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... Wilmot Proviso , so far as the argument goes , as to giving to the Congress of the United States the power of regulating every description of property which the citizens of the country possess who choose to emigrate there . The senator ...
... Wilmot Proviso , so far as the argument goes , as to giving to the Congress of the United States the power of regulating every description of property which the citizens of the country possess who choose to emigrate there . The senator ...
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... Wilmot Proviso and Free - soil doctrine on this point . He desires a pro- hibition on the part of Congress that the Territorial Legislatures shall not legislate in respect to slavery . Why , sir , the laws of Mexico prohibited slavery ...
... Wilmot Proviso and Free - soil doctrine on this point . He desires a pro- hibition on the part of Congress that the Territorial Legislatures shall not legislate in respect to slavery . Why , sir , the laws of Mexico prohibited slavery ...
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... Wilmot Proviso ? Congress can only insert this clause upon the assumption that they have full power over the Territories - power to admit , power to exclude , as well as power to say that the Territorial Legislature may do one or the ...
... Wilmot Proviso ? Congress can only insert this clause upon the assumption that they have full power over the Territories - power to admit , power to exclude , as well as power to say that the Territorial Legislature may do one or the ...
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... Wilmot Proviso . I would as soon vote for that proviso here . I believe it would be more magnanimous to vote for it here than to fight behind the bush in this way . Now what was fair two years ago , when we had a Southern President ...
... Wilmot Proviso . I would as soon vote for that proviso here . I believe it would be more magnanimous to vote for it here than to fight behind the bush in this way . Now what was fair two years ago , when we had a Southern President ...
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Seite 401 - 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 305 - 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 own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Seite 305 - That nothing in this act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians...
Seite 508 - 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 405 - Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion, for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery ? He don't care anything about it. His avowed mission is impressing the " public heart
Seite 305 - 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...
Seite 337 - That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Seite 504 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Seite 485 - There is certainly no power given by the Constitution to the Federal Government to establish or maintain colonies bordering on the United States or at a distance, to be ruled and governed at its own pleasure; nor to enlarge its territorial limits in any way, except by the admission of new States. That power is plainly given ; and if a new State is admitted, it needs no further legislation by Congress, because the Constitution itself defines the relative rights and powers, and duties of the State,...
Seite 478 - ... and that the States so formed shall be distinct republican States, and admitted members of the Federal Union, having the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence as the other States...
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