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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They were too high to be reached even by the legislation of an omnipotent British
Parliassient. These invidious distinctions between the high and the humble, the
exemption of the aristocratic few, and the punish: ment of the mass, who hold ...
They were too high to be reached even by the legislation of an omnipotent British
Parliassient. These invidious distinctions between the high and the humble, the
exemption of the aristocratic few, and the punish: ment of the mass, who hold ...
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ment of the mass, who hold and enjoy office and place, may have well comported
with the spirit of the British Government, but would not be tolerated in this country,
if it were possible to suppose that this bill could ever become a law of the land.
ment of the mass, who hold and enjoy office and place, may have well comported
with the spirit of the British Government, but would not be tolerated in this country,
if it were possible to suppose that this bill could ever become a law of the land.
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... legislative depart. ment, and required to be performed by law. This second
section, then, so far as it declares & generality, and attempts to transfer the details
—the efficient, auxiliary, and perfecting legislation—to the various State
legislatures ...
... legislative depart. ment, and required to be performed by law. This second
section, then, so far as it declares & generality, and attempts to transfer the details
—the efficient, auxiliary, and perfecting legislation—to the various State
legislatures ...
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Federal numbers regulate the apportionment of members among the States; but
such rule would not necessarily bind Congress in an arrange. ment of districts.
An attempt might be made to apply a basis of numbers to the district system, ...
Federal numbers regulate the apportionment of members among the States; but
such rule would not necessarily bind Congress in an arrange. ment of districts.
An attempt might be made to apply a basis of numbers to the district system, ...
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... they (the vessels) were, in pursuance of the 'orders of the American minister,
delivered to an aw' thorized Government agent at Bergen, and after 'being so
delivered, and in the custody of the Govern' ment of the United States, were,
contrary ...
... they (the vessels) were, in pursuance of the 'orders of the American minister,
delivered to an aw' thorized Government agent at Bergen, and after 'being so
delivered, and in the custody of the Govern' ment of the United States, were,
contrary ...
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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...