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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Mr. NORVELL rose and said: Before I proceed, Mr. President, to present my
views of the bill now under consideration, I desire to perform an act of justice to
my Whig friends on the other side of the Senate, and to a distinguished
statesman of ...
Mr. NORVELL rose and said: Before I proceed, Mr. President, to present my
views of the bill now under consideration, I desire to perform an act of justice to
my Whig friends on the other side of the Senate, and to a distinguished
statesman of ...
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This Government, Mr. President, has been in operation fifty years. limited powers.
It has rarely transcended its When it has gone beyond its constitutional
boundaries, it has been brought back to its Republican tack. It has not interfered
with the ...
This Government, Mr. President, has been in operation fifty years. limited powers.
It has rarely transcended its When it has gone beyond its constitutional
boundaries, it has been brought back to its Republican tack. It has not interfered
with the ...
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Mr. President, two years ago, the little State of Rhode Isiand, one year Since the
State of Connecticut, three short months past the empire State of New York, fell
into the hands of the political friends of Senators over the way. And what was the
...
Mr. President, two years ago, the little State of Rhode Isiand, one year Since the
State of Connecticut, three short months past the empire State of New York, fell
into the hands of the political friends of Senators over the way. And what was the
...
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... with the elective franchise in the States. You have no right to prescribe the
qualifications or conditions upon which any man may vote, either for President or
Vice President, either for a member of Congress or a member of a State
Legislature.
... with the elective franchise in the States. You have no right to prescribe the
qualifications or conditions upon which any man may vote, either for President or
Vice President, either for a member of Congress or a member of a State
Legislature.
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But you, Mr. President, it seems, are restrained from voting in this body, except in
the case of an equal division of its members; and, therefore, some of your rights
have been taken from you; and, therefore, those of other public officers may be ...
But you, Mr. President, it seems, are restrained from voting in this body, except in
the case of an equal division of its members; and, therefore, some of your rights
have been taken from you; and, therefore, those of other public officers may be ...
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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...