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 1836Tribune Association, 1860 - 254 էջ |
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... authority , to a foreign government . Exception is taken to the indiscriminate re- moval of all officers within the reach of the Pre- sident , who were not attached to his person or party . As illustrative of the extent to which this ...
... authority , to a foreign government . Exception is taken to the indiscriminate re- moval of all officers within the reach of the Pre- sident , who were not attached to his person or party . As illustrative of the extent to which this ...
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... authority upon the Federal Government , directly or in- directly , to assume the debts of the several States , con- tracted for local internal improvements or other State purposes ; nor would such assumption be just or ex- pedient . 4 ...
... authority upon the Federal Government , directly or in- directly , to assume the debts of the several States , con- tracted for local internal improvements or other State purposes ; nor would such assumption be just or ex- pedient . 4 ...
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... authority ought to be arrayed on the side of Liberty and Free Labor . Resolved , That the practice of the General Govern- ment , which prevails in the Slave States , of employing Slaves upon the public works , instead of free laborers ...
... authority ought to be arrayed on the side of Liberty and Free Labor . Resolved , That the practice of the General Govern- ment , which prevails in the Slave States , of employing Slaves upon the public works , instead of free laborers ...
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... authority to legislate on that subject , and it is thus responsible for its existence . with foreign nations , or among the several States , are objects of national concern , and that it is the duty of Congress , in the exercise of its ...
... authority to legislate on that subject , and it is thus responsible for its existence . with foreign nations , or among the several States , are objects of national concern , and that it is the duty of Congress , in the exercise of its ...
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... authority of each , and acquiescence in the just constitutional measures of each , are duties required by the plainest considerations of National , State and individual welfare . Eighth . That the series of acts of the 32d Congress ...
... authority of each , and acquiescence in the just constitutional measures of each , are duties required by the plainest considerations of National , State and individual welfare . Eighth . That the series of acts of the 32d Congress ...
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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. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments.
Էջ 249 - 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 farther valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and...
Էջ 113 - 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 63 - ... 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.
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 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 58 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Էջ 76 - 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. 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 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 141 - 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...