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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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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Mr. D. said, that before he attempted to examine particularly the meaning of the
clause of the constitution specifically involved in this discussion, and the relative
powers of the State and federal governments derived from it, he would be ...
Mr. D. said, that before he attempted to examine particularly the meaning of the
clause of the constitution specifically involved in this discussion, and the relative
powers of the State and federal governments derived from it, he would be ...
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The clause then reading—“but regulations in each of the foregoing cases may, at
any time, bě made or altered by the legislature of the United States.” “This was
meant [says Mr. Madison] to give the national legislature a power, not only to alter
...
The clause then reading—“but regulations in each of the foregoing cases may, at
any time, bě made or altered by the legislature of the United States.” “This was
meant [says Mr. Madison] to give the national legislature a power, not only to alter
...
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This treaty, or convention, settled nothing except the matters specified therein.
There is no general clause in this arrangement, by which this claim is cut off, or
the least impaired. Our Government has so treated it from the fact, that since 1830
, ...
This treaty, or convention, settled nothing except the matters specified therein.
There is no general clause in this arrangement, by which this claim is cut off, or
the least impaired. Our Government has so treated it from the fact, that since 1830
, ...
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It would be an insult to clause in the bill, to allow the judges to go on their circuits,
if they thought proper. When he (Mr. B.) first saw that proviso, he could scarcely
restrain himself from laughing over it—at the very idea of legislating to exempt ...
It would be an insult to clause in the bill, to allow the judges to go on their circuits,
if they thought proper. When he (Mr. B.) first saw that proviso, he could scarcely
restrain himself from laughing over it—at the very idea of legislating to exempt ...
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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...