The Congressional Globe ...Printed at the Globe Office for the editors, 1859 |
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... side of a question , whilst a majority of the representatives from the several districts into which it is divided may be upon the other side . This arises from the fact that in some districts delegates may be elected by small majorities ...
... side of a question , whilst a majority of the representatives from the several districts into which it is divided may be upon the other side . This arises from the fact that in some districts delegates may be elected by small majorities ...
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... side of Lafayette square has been taken up , under - drained , and re- laid . Lamp - posts and lamps have been set upon the three sides of the square which have not been heretofore lighted , and they show the square to great advantage ...
... side of Lafayette square has been taken up , under - drained , and re- laid . Lamp - posts and lamps have been set upon the three sides of the square which have not been heretofore lighted , and they show the square to great advantage ...
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... side of the House attempting in vain , within the last twenty - five or thirty days , to obtain the floor - gentlemen who would have discussed the question which I propose to con- sider with much more ability than I can hope to bring to ...
... side of the House attempting in vain , within the last twenty - five or thirty days , to obtain the floor - gentlemen who would have discussed the question which I propose to con- sider with much more ability than I can hope to bring to ...
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... side of the House whether they would vote to admit Kansas as a slave State , if it was well ascertained that a majority of her people were in favor of slave institutions . I can answer that question without any difficulty . I would not ...
... side of the House whether they would vote to admit Kansas as a slave State , if it was well ascertained that a majority of her people were in favor of slave institutions . I can answer that question without any difficulty . I would not ...
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... side of the Chamber , a great of our Government , and I am unwilling that the deal said about " gigantic and ... side of the Chamber is to agitate the ques- tion of slavery . I have very great doubts whether the leaders on the other side ...
... side of the Chamber , a great of our Government , and I am unwilling that the deal said about " gigantic and ... side of the Chamber is to agitate the ques- tion of slavery . I have very great doubts whether the leaders on the other side ...
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Էջ 75 - ... inquire whether the Constitution has been preserved inviolate in every part, during the last septenary (including the year of their service) ; and whether the legislative and executive branches of government have performed their duty, as guardians of the people, or assumed to themselves, or exercised, other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the Constitution...
Էջ 5 - ... it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Էջ 170 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain.
Էջ 182 - That the legislative power of the territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation, consistent with the constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Էջ 145 - Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Էջ 71 - In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.
Էջ 3 - ... the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists : and in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Էջ 88 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Էջ 5 - then the article providing for Slavery shall be stricken from the constitution by the president of this Convention ;" and it is expressly declared that " no Slavery shall exist in the State of Kansas, except that the right of property in slaves now in the Territory shall in no manner be interfered with...
Էջ 4 - Nebraska; and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...