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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For that doctrine he has received the unqualified denunciations of the Opposition;
and his party friends have shared an equal degree of condemnation for
confirming, by their policy, the principle which he avowed. My purpose now is to
show ...
For that doctrine he has received the unqualified denunciations of the Opposition;
and his party friends have shared an equal degree of condemnation for
confirming, by their policy, the principle which he avowed. My purpose now is to
show ...
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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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Our marshals, postmasters, and collectors, are equal in intelligence, and, I trust,
in spirit too, to those who occupy the highest stations of this Government. And, sir,
they will be more wanting in manly feeling, less faithful to themselves, than I ...
Our marshals, postmasters, and collectors, are equal in intelligence, and, I trust,
in spirit too, to those who occupy the highest stations of this Government. And, sir,
they will be more wanting in manly feeling, less faithful to themselves, than I ...
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The possession of office neither weakens his intellectual faculties, his ability to
discharge his Social and political duties, nor does it take from him his equal rights
and liberties as a citizen, under the Constitution. Sir, under the preence of ...
The possession of office neither weakens his intellectual faculties, his ability to
discharge his Social and political duties, nor does it take from him his equal rights
and liberties as a citizen, under the Constitution. Sir, under the preence of ...
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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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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...