A Chapter of American History: Five Years' Progress of the Slave Power : a Series of Papers First Published in the Boston "Commonwealth," in July, August, and September, 1851B.B. Mussey, 1852 - 84 էջ |
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... merchants , or lawyers , or bricklayers , or men of any other position but slaveholding planters , had held this large proportion of office and power in the government of the country , we should probably think it something approach- ing ...
... merchants , or lawyers , or bricklayers , or men of any other position but slaveholding planters , had held this large proportion of office and power in the government of the country , we should probably think it something approach- ing ...
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... merchants , or lawyers , or bricklayers , or men of any other position but slaveholding planters , had held this large proportion of office and power in the government of the country , we should probably think it something approach- ing ...
... merchants , or lawyers , or bricklayers , or men of any other position but slaveholding planters , had held this large proportion of office and power in the government of the country , we should probably think it something approach- ing ...
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... merchant named Pearson , confined him , first on board the vessel , and then on one of the islands in the harbor ... merchants of Boston by one of their own number . Nor did that imminent danger to the Union yet exist , in which many ...
... merchant named Pearson , confined him , first on board the vessel , and then on one of the islands in the harbor ... merchants of Boston by one of their own number . Nor did that imminent danger to the Union yet exist , in which many ...
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... merchants , and those sometimes rich and talkative merchants , who have trained themselves to sacrifice any and every thing that interferes with the success of their business , and who at the same time understand so little of the ...
... merchants , and those sometimes rich and talkative merchants , who have trained themselves to sacrifice any and every thing that interferes with the success of their business , and who at the same time understand so little of the ...
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... merchants in their sales to customers in the Slave States , in any ten years of the history of this government . What with delays , protests , expenses of collection , and bad debts , causing a good deal of good money to be thrown away ...
... merchants in their sales to customers in the Slave States , in any ten years of the history of this government . What with delays , protests , expenses of collection , and bad debts , causing a good deal of good money to be thrown away ...
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action admission amendment American annexation of Texas Antislavery aristocracy Boston Calhoun California called candidate carried census Charles Sumner Charleston citizens Committee Constitution Convention course declare delegates Democratic District effect election favor Free Soil friends of Freedom Fugitive Slave Bill Georgia hand honor House hundred thousand influence interest John Quincy Adams large number less liberty Massachusetts measure ment merchants Mexico Mississippi Money Power negroes newspapers nomination non-slaveholders North Northern Northern Whigs number of slaveholders number of slaves oligarchy passed persons political Polk position President President of Mexico proslavery province of Spain question Representatives republic resolution secured Senate Slave Power Slavery South Carolina Southern statesmen speech spirit suppose Tariff Taylor territorial governments Texas annexation thing Thirtieth Congress three millions tion Union United Virginia vote voters wanted Washington Webster Whig party whole number Wilmot Proviso Winthrop York
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Էջ 16 - Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Էջ 12 - I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of the slaveholding states ; and also with a determination equally decided to resist the slightest interference with it in the states where it exists.
Էջ 10 - That, after the year 1800 of the Christian era, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Էջ 29 - ... it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such forms, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Էջ 11 - But when I consider that the limits of the United States are precisely fixed by the treaty of 1783, that the Constitution expressly declares itself to be made for the United States, I...
Էջ 13 - ... nature so unjust in themselves, so injurious to the interests and abhorrent to the feelings of the people of the Free States, as, in our opinion, not only inevitably to result in a dissolution of the Union, but fully to justify it; and we not only assert that the people of the Free States ' ought not to submit to it,' but, we say with confidence, they would not submit to it.
Էջ 16 - February, 1803, an act was passed appropriating $2,000,000 "for the purpose of defraying any extraordinary expenses which may be incurred in the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, " " to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States, who shall cause an account of the expenditure thereof to be laid before Congress as soon as may be...
Էջ 51 - Let us declare, through the public journals of our country, that the question of Slavery is not, and shall not be open to discussion — that the system is deep rooted among us, and MUST REMAIN FOREVER : that the very moment any private individual attempts to lecture us upon its evils and immorality, and the necessity of putting means in operation to secure us from them, in the same moment his tongue shall be cut out and cast upon a dunghill.
Էջ 56 - No, fellow-citizens — there is something more and other for us to do. And what is that ? Among other things, chiefly this — to accept that whole body of measures of compromise, as they are called, by which the Government has sought to compose the country, in the spirit of 1787 — and then, that henceforward every man, according to his measure, and in his place, in his party, in his social, or his literary, or his religious circle, in whatever may be his sphere of influence, set himself to suppress...
Էջ 33 - An Act proposing to the State of Texas the Establishment of her Northern and Western Boundaries, the Relinquishment by the said State of all Territory claimed by her exterior to said Boundaries, and of all her claims upon the United States, and to establish a territorial Government for New Mexico.