SPEECH OF MR. NORVELL, OF MICHIGAN, OF THE BILL OF MR. CRITTENDEN TO PREVENT THE INTERFERENCE OF CERTIAN FEDERAL OFFICERS IN ELECTIONS |
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... words and actions of their fellow-citizens. Shocking, sir, as this bill is to all my
Republican notions of the equal rights of all classes of the American people,
there is one thing about it which still more palpably indicates its avowed British
origin.
... words and actions of their fellow-citizens. Shocking, sir, as this bill is to all my
Republican notions of the equal rights of all classes of the American people,
there is one thing about it which still more palpably indicates its avowed British
origin.
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It is a sound, able, Republican vindication of the equal political rights of the
American people, whether they be in the walks of private life, or clothed with the
honors of public office. But, says the honorable Senator from Kentucky, the bill
does ...
It is a sound, able, Republican vindication of the equal political rights of the
American people, whether they be in the walks of private life, or clothed with the
honors of public office. But, says the honorable Senator from Kentucky, the bill
does ...
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Sir, the report properly incites them to assert and vindicate their equal rights,
attempted to be violated by this bill; and they would be unworthy of the character
of American citizens, if they did not maintain those rights with manly firmness.
Sir, the report properly incites them to assert and vindicate their equal rights,
attempted to be violated by this bill; and they would be unworthy of the character
of American citizens, if they did not maintain those rights with manly firmness.
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It was uttered fifty years ago by the father of ultra-Federalism. in his treatise upon
the American Constitutions, he pronounced the British Constitution to be “the
most stupendous fabric of hutaking lis when ** : * v- or 2, . *!-, as ^* f. *-* * * in \{\}}
if?
It was uttered fifty years ago by the father of ultra-Federalism. in his treatise upon
the American Constitutions, he pronounced the British Constitution to be “the
most stupendous fabric of hutaking lis when ** : * v- or 2, . *!-, as ^* f. *-* * * in \{\}}
if?
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... government may be; but we, as American citizens, in addition, to these duties,
owe some of a higher character which may more properly, be denominated
political duties, which I contradistinguish from civil duties for the purpose of
illustration.
... government may be; but we, as American citizens, in addition, to these duties,
owe some of a higher character which may more properly, be denominated
political duties, which I contradistinguish from civil duties for the purpose of
illustration.
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ADDRESS OF CHARLES H. ALLEN TO THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE LEGISLATURE OF PORTO ... Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1900 |
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Էջ 16 - Ohio, under the laws thereof, shall escape into any other of the said states, or territory, the person to whom such labor, or service, may be due, his agent, or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or district courts of the United States, residing, or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Էջ 16 - That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct or hinder such claimant, his agent or attorney, in so seizing or arresting such fugitive from labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from such claimant, his agent or attorney, when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given or declared; or shall harbor or conceal such person after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labor as aforesaid, shall, for either of the said offences, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars.
Էջ 16 - Historically, it is well known, that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding states the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves, as property, in every state in the Union into which they might escape from the state where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slaveholding states; and, indeed, was so vital to the preservation of their domestic...