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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The remedy for the evils which I have shown not to be very great, and susceptible
of counteraction without the aid of penal laws, is very partially provided in the bill
of the honorable Senator. “To the end,” says the bill, “that the great powers ...
The remedy for the evils which I have shown not to be very great, and susceptible
of counteraction without the aid of penal laws, is very partially provided in the bill
of the honorable Senator. “To the end,” says the bill, “that the great powers ...
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This bill enacts the punishment of innocent and laudable opinions expressed by
the citizen, if he happens to be a public officer. Sir, no honorable man would
accept appointment if this bill should become a law. No man of character, no
freeman ...
This bill enacts the punishment of innocent and laudable opinions expressed by
the citizen, if he happens to be a public officer. Sir, no honorable man would
accept appointment if this bill should become a law. No man of character, no
freeman ...
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As well might the honorable Senator have illustrated his principle by alluding to
the exclusion of the crowds, who daily throng these galleries, from the right of
debating and voting in this Hali. No, sir, what you do here, what you are
prohibited ...
As well might the honorable Senator have illustrated his principle by alluding to
the exclusion of the crowds, who daily throng these galleries, from the right of
debating and voting in this Hali. No, sir, what you do here, what you are
prohibited ...
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The honorable Senator is equally patriotic. He tells the public officer, whose
feelings are outraged, whose spirit is attempted to be subdued and broken down
by this bill, that if he does not like office upon these tyrannical and proscriptive
terms, ...
The honorable Senator is equally patriotic. He tells the public officer, whose
feelings are outraged, whose spirit is attempted to be subdued and broken down
by this bill, that if he does not like office upon these tyrannical and proscriptive
terms, ...
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The honorable Senator complains that the report not only justifies the officers of
Government in the exercise of the common right which belongs to every citizen,
but incites them to intermeddle in elections. Sir, the report properly incites them to
...
The honorable Senator complains that the report not only justifies the officers of
Government in the exercise of the common right which belongs to every citizen,
but incites them to intermeddle in elections. Sir, the report properly incites them to
...
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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...