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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Mr. NORVELL rose and said: Before I proceed, Mr. President, to present my
views of the bill now under consideration, I desire to perform an act of justice to
my Whig friends on the other side of the Senate, and to a distinguished
statesman of ...
Mr. NORVELL rose and said: Before I proceed, Mr. President, to present my
views of the bill now under consideration, I desire to perform an act of justice to
my Whig friends on the other side of the Senate, and to a distinguished
statesman of ...
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If the Senator had not been in attentive, he would have heard it distinctly
announced, that the book which I have just laid down was the biography of
Elbridge Gerry, written by James T. Austin, the present attorney general of
Massachusetts.
If the Senator had not been in attentive, he would have heard it distinctly
announced, that the book which I have just laid down was the biography of
Elbridge Gerry, written by James T. Austin, the present attorney general of
Massachusetts.
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It is easy, sir, to understand the present drift of the honorable Senator. That
gentleman sustained General Jackson in his administration throughout. He has
frequently, since he left his friends, called into requisition the example and
authority of ...
It is easy, sir, to understand the present drift of the honorable Senator. That
gentleman sustained General Jackson in his administration throughout. He has
frequently, since he left his friends, called into requisition the example and
authority of ...
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... the million is secured, and then, as the representative of that cause, does he
become of importance.” And let me add, sir, in the prophetic spirit of the same
author, that if the present Chief Magistrate “fail in his Administration, it will be
because ...
... the million is secured, and then, as the representative of that cause, does he
become of importance.” And let me add, sir, in the prophetic spirit of the same
author, that if the present Chief Magistrate “fail in his Administration, it will be
because ...
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Yes, (said Mr. D.) the 27th Congress actually attempted to anticipate the action: of
this House, and to expel, in advance, by their legislation, the members of this
present House, i. have (said Mr. D.) hunted up the parchment upon ...
Yes, (said Mr. D.) the 27th Congress actually attempted to anticipate the action: of
this House, and to expel, in advance, by their legislation, the members of this
present House, i. have (said Mr. D.) hunted up the parchment upon ...
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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...