A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential Nominations and Elections, Including All the National Platforms Ever Yet Adopted: Also a History of the Struggle Respecting Slavery in the Territories, and of the Action of Congress as to the Freedom of the Public Lands, with the Most Notable Speeches and Letters of Messrs. Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Cass, Seward, Everett, Breckinridge, H. V. Johnson, Etc., Etc., Touching the Questions of the Day; and Returns of All Presidential Elections Since 1836 |
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16 Yeas and Nays thereon in Continental Congress 52 Buffalo Free Soil Platform , 1848 . 17 Ordinance of 1787 , prohibiting Slavery in the Whig National Platform , 1852 . 18 North - west Territory .. 52 Democratic National Platform ...
16 Yeas and Nays thereon in Continental Congress 52 Buffalo Free Soil Platform , 1848 . 17 Ordinance of 1787 , prohibiting Slavery in the Whig National Platform , 1852 . 18 North - west Territory .. 52 Democratic National Platform ...
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PAOB Yeas 118 , Nays , 1011 , thereon . 85 TYLER , JOHN , of Virginia , nominated and 86 The clause of said bill repealing the Missouri defeated for Vice - President , 1835-6 .. 12 Compromise ; President Pierce on Kansas ArNominated for ...
PAOB Yeas 118 , Nays , 1011 , thereon . 85 TYLER , JOHN , of Virginia , nominated and 86 The clause of said bill repealing the Missouri defeated for Vice - President , 1835-6 .. 12 Compromise ; President Pierce on Kansas ArNominated for ...
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... all sides by innumerable foes and that more formidable enemy - the This resolution was rejected : Yeas , 36 ; nays , diseases of the climate - exalt their devoted patriotism | 216 -- the yeas being : Georgia , 9 ; South Carointo the ...
... all sides by innumerable foes and that more formidable enemy - the This resolution was rejected : Yeas , 36 ; nays , diseases of the climate - exalt their devoted patriotism | 216 -- the yeas being : Georgia , 9 ; South Carointo the ...
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... of society and dangerous to the Union , I can offer no other pledge or guarantee than the known incidents of a long public life , now undergoing the YEAS – Maine , 4 ; New - Hampshire , 5 ; Vermont , 5 : severest examination .
... of society and dangerous to the Union , I can offer no other pledge or guarantee than the known incidents of a long public life , now undergoing the YEAS – Maine , 4 ; New - Hampshire , 5 ; Vermont , 5 : severest examination .
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Yeas – Maine , 8 ; Massachusetts , 8 ; Connecticut , 24 ; The majority of the Convention , confident of New - Jersey , 5 ; Pennsylvania , 16+ Delaware , 3 ; Mary their power to reject the majority report , were land , 54 ; Virginia ...
Yeas – Maine , 8 ; Massachusetts , 8 ; Connecticut , 24 ; The majority of the Convention , confident of New - Jersey , 5 ; Pennsylvania , 16+ Delaware , 3 ; Mary their power to reject the majority report , were land , 54 ; Virginia ...
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Էջ 201 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy to do so.
Էջ 249 - Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact...
Էջ 201 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America.
Էջ 249 - Resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Էջ 201 - Our policy in regard to Europe, which was adopted at an early stage of the wars which have so long agitated that quarter of the globe, nevertheless remains the same, which is, not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it, and to preserve those relations by a frank, firm, and manly policy, meeting in all instances the just claims of every power, submitting to injuries...
Էջ 109 - 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...
Էջ 25 - That the Democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing in Congress, or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
Էջ 26 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Էջ 177 - 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.
Էջ 26 - ... 1. That the history of the nation, during the last four years, has fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the Republican party, and that the causes which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now, more than ever before, demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.
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| Վերնագիր | A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential Nominations and Elections, Including All the National Platforms Ever Yet Adopted: Also a History of the Struggle Respecting Slavery in the Territories, and of the Action of Congress as to the Freedom of the Public Lands ... American culture series American history, 1493-1945 Legal classics library Slavery in America and the world: history, culture & law |
| Կազմված. | Horace Greeley, John Fitch Cleveland |
| Հրատարակիչ | Tribune Association, 1860 |
| Original from | Նյու Յորքի Հանրային գրադարան |
| Digitized | 17 Դեկտեմբեր 2007 |
| Length | 248 էջ |
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