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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“To the end,” says the bill, “that the great powers given to the officers of the
Federal Government, and other persons employed in its service, may not be used
for the influencing of elections, which ought to be free and incorrupt,” marshals, ...
“To the end,” says the bill, “that the great powers given to the officers of the
Federal Government, and other persons employed in its service, may not be used
for the influencing of elections, which ought to be free and incorrupt,” marshals, ...
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counties, cities, boroughs, and towns of the State, according to their respective
numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free
persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding
Indians not ...
counties, cities, boroughs, and towns of the State, according to their respective
numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free
persons, including those bound to service for a term of years, and excluding
Indians not ...
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By the wisdom of our law-makers, those precincts are small; they have also
provided for the appointment of a class of officers called judges of election,
whose duty it is to know of themselves, or by information, all persons who are or
are not ...
By the wisdom of our law-makers, those precincts are small; they have also
provided for the appointment of a class of officers called judges of election,
whose duty it is to know of themselves, or by information, all persons who are or
are not ...
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J. Henderson, attorney for George W. Holmes.-Please to state if you know of any
person or persons taken to Cincinnati to vote at the State election held on the
13th of October last; and if you know any thing about it, state all you know in
relation ...
J. Henderson, attorney for George W. Holmes.-Please to state if you know of any
person or persons taken to Cincinnati to vote at the State election held on the
13th of October last; and if you know any thing about it, state all you know in
relation ...
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Some time after dinner, for the first time, I saw the man (Stewart) alone, who had
been, through the day, sitting with the men. it was just before we arrived at Aurora
, or Rising Sun, I think the son mer; and some of the persons on board had ...
Some time after dinner, for the first time, I saw the man (Stewart) alone, who had
been, through the day, sitting with the men. it was just before we arrived at Aurora
, or Rising Sun, I think the son mer; and some of the persons on board had ...
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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...