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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Are you wiser, more virtuous, more pure, than your predecessors for fifty years
past? Are you more enlightened? Have you a higher sense of virtue and
patriotism, than the illustrious framers of the Federal charter, under which you
occupy ...
Are you wiser, more virtuous, more pure, than your predecessors for fifty years
past? Are you more enlightened? Have you a higher sense of virtue and
patriotism, than the illustrious framers of the Federal charter, under which you
occupy ...
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Sir, the Senator from Kentucky closed his re. marks by an appeal to the patriotism
and pride of this body. He implored us to sanction this bill, that it might stand
among the recorded honors of the Senate, as a monument to its wisdom and
virtue, ...
Sir, the Senator from Kentucky closed his re. marks by an appeal to the patriotism
and pride of this body. He implored us to sanction this bill, that it might stand
among the recorded honors of the Senate, as a monument to its wisdom and
virtue, ...
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For the work of reformation, therefore, wherever it was practicable, high
reputation, unSullied virtue, well-attested patriotism, acknowledged abilities,
were selected. He hoped he would be excused for announcing the names of
some of the ...
For the work of reformation, therefore, wherever it was practicable, high
reputation, unSullied virtue, well-attested patriotism, acknowledged abilities,
were selected. He hoped he would be excused for announcing the names of
some of the ...
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... free institutions purchased with their blood and their treasure. But, not comtent
with that hope and that confidence which they had a right to indulge—not content
with the obligations of patriotism upon those who were to inherit the rich legacy ...
... free institutions purchased with their blood and their treasure. But, not comtent
with that hope and that confidence which they had a right to indulge—not content
with the obligations of patriotism upon those who were to inherit the rich legacy ...
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... State of Kentucky, at the time and place, and for the purpose stated in the
caption there. of, and the notice hereunto annexed. The said Jefferson Peak
being duly sworn, and the question propounded, did, in our their patriotism to be
shaken, ...
... State of Kentucky, at the time and place, and for the purpose stated in the
caption there. of, and the notice hereunto annexed. The said Jefferson Peak
being duly sworn, and the question propounded, did, in our their patriotism to be
shaken, ...
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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...