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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It is the production of a modern Whig, sir, now in the enjoyment of “the spoils” of
Federal victory. He it is, and not Governor Marcy, who first proclaimed “the spoils”
doctrine, and demanded what was the value of a triumph, if the vanquished were
...
It is the production of a modern Whig, sir, now in the enjoyment of “the spoils” of
Federal victory. He it is, and not Governor Marcy, who first proclaimed “the spoils”
doctrine, and demanded what was the value of a triumph, if the vanquished were
...
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Was there any difficulty in finding pure and patriotic Whigs No, sir! ... towards
whom no epithet of Federal reprobation was too strong for daily utterance, the
first days of the Whig saturnalia have been celebrated by the proscription of some
of ...
Was there any difficulty in finding pure and patriotic Whigs No, sir! ... towards
whom no epithet of Federal reprobation was too strong for daily utterance, the
first days of the Whig saturnalia have been celebrated by the proscription of some
of ...
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{}{}l Q ro only p ing or di i able to the courts of justice for the commission of the
offence of speaking on politics, so terrible to all good Whig patriots, and yet so
common to all men, and to all parties, in this nation! measure is the very essence
of ...
{}{}l Q ro only p ing or di i able to the courts of justice for the commission of the
offence of speaking on politics, so terrible to all good Whig patriots, and yet so
common to all men, and to all parties, in this nation! measure is the very essence
of ...
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Kentucky cious Whig bill, Sir, the Senator from might as well have perfected the
copy of his British model, by a clause forbidding the public officer to VOte. If, Mr.
President, this interference of public officers in elections be so pernicious, ...
Kentucky cious Whig bill, Sir, the Senator from might as well have perfected the
copy of his British model, by a clause forbidding the public officer to VOte. If, Mr.
President, this interference of public officers in elections be so pernicious, ...
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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...