Freedom and Public Faith: Speech of William H. Seward, on the Abrogation of the Missouri Compromise, in the Kansas and Nebraska Bills, Թողարկում 28Buell & Blanchard, printers, 1854 - 16 էջ Printed by Buell & Blanchard, printers. Argues The general authority of Congress over the Territories is one wisely confided to the National Legislature, to save young and growing communities from the dangers which beset them in their state of pupilage, and to prevent them from adopting any policy that shall be at war with their own lasting interests... |
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... measure , was not , without much reluctance , postponed until 1808 . While there was no national power , and no claim or desire for national power , anywhere , to compel involuntary emancipation in the States where slavery existed ...
... measure , was not , without much reluctance , postponed until 1808 . While there was no national power , and no claim or desire for national power , anywhere , to compel involuntary emancipation in the States where slavery existed ...
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... measure was Congress of 1787 , extended over a new part of adopted . It was a great national transaction — the national domain , acquired under our pres- he first of a class of transactions which have ince come to be thoroughly defined ...
... measure was Congress of 1787 , extended over a new part of adopted . It was a great national transaction — the national domain , acquired under our pres- he first of a class of transactions which have ince come to be thoroughly defined ...
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... measure we shall have so un - tains the doctrine that the Constitution of the United States secures to every citizen an inalienable right to wisely , so hurriedly , so suicidally subverted ? move into any of the Territories with his ...
... measure we shall have so un - tains the doctrine that the Constitution of the United States secures to every citizen an inalienable right to wisely , so hurriedly , so suicidally subverted ? move into any of the Territories with his ...
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... measure to confront that imperious shade , and say that , in making the Compromise of 1850 , he intended or dreamed that he was subverting , or preparing the way for a subversion of , his greater work of 1820 . Sir , if that eagle ...
... measure to confront that imperious shade , and say that , in making the Compromise of 1850 , he intended or dreamed that he was subverting , or preparing the way for a subversion of , his greater work of 1820 . Sir , if that eagle ...
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... measure of great wis tom and forethought , and one which has been attended with highly bene- ficial and permanent consequences . ” And now hear what he said here , when ad- vocating the Compromise of 1850 : wounds in the Federal system ...
... measure of great wis tom and forethought , and one which has been attended with highly bene- ficial and permanent consequences . ” And now hear what he said here , when ad- vocating the Compromise of 1850 : wounds in the Federal system ...
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Էջ 7 - 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, for ever prohibited...
Էջ 8 - ... 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...
Էջ 11 - ... north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire. And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery, or involuntary servitude, (except for crime,) shall be prohibited.
Էջ 4 - 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...
Էջ 7 - an act to authorize the people of the Missouri Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories...
Էջ 7 - Congress deemed it wise and prudent to refrain from deciding the matters in controversy then, either by affirming or repealing the Mexican laws, or by an act declaratory of the true intent of the Constitution and the extent of the protection afforded by it to slave property in the Territories ; so your committee are not prepared...
Էջ 7 - Under this section, as in the case of the Mexican law in New Mexico and Utah, it is a disputed point whether slavery is prohibited in the Nebraska country by valid enactment. The decision of this question involves the constitutional power of Congress to pass laws prescribing and regulating the domestic institutions of the various Territories of the Union. In the opinion of those eminent statesmen who hold that Congress is invested with no rightful authority to legislate upon the subject of slavery...
Էջ 11 - New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution.
Էջ 9 - I now throw my gauntlet at the feet of every senator now here, who was in the senate in 1850, and challenge him to say that he then knew, or thought, or dreamed, that, by enacting the compromise of 1850, he was directly or indirectly abrogating, or in any degree impairing, the Missouri Compromise ? No one takes it tip.
Էջ 11 - States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire.