The Congressional Globe ...Printed at the Globe Office for the editors, 1859 |
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... vote , as if all had participated in the election . Other wise , as voting must be voluntary , self - government ... vote of the people , was as clear and certain as that of thority of such a convention to submit the constitution to ...
... vote , as if all had participated in the election . Other wise , as voting must be voluntary , self - government ... vote of the people , was as clear and certain as that of thority of such a convention to submit the constitution to ...
Էջ 73
... vote , and ask you if you will take that as an expression of the will of the majority , when only a minority voted . I have some instances , with which my col- leagues are familiar , in which a minority have made a constitution , and ...
... vote , and ask you if you will take that as an expression of the will of the majority , when only a minority voted . I have some instances , with which my col- leagues are familiar , in which a minority have made a constitution , and ...
Էջ 94
... vote can be taken , which would be much more agreeable than to go on now during the night . Mr. GREEN . Everything of that sort has been refused . Mr. PUGH . I was told by some Senators on this side that they would agree to take the vote ...
... vote can be taken , which would be much more agreeable than to go on now during the night . Mr. GREEN . Everything of that sort has been refused . Mr. PUGH . I was told by some Senators on this side that they would agree to take the vote ...
Էջ 95
... vote for the admission of Kansas with this constitution as it is , or not vote for it , leaving it to be altered afterwards ; and I do not choose to vote for the constitution as it is . I prefer that the alteration should be made first ...
... vote for the admission of Kansas with this constitution as it is , or not vote for it , leaving it to be altered afterwards ; and I do not choose to vote for the constitution as it is . I prefer that the alteration should be made first ...
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... vote . It will be for the Senate to say whether the Senators who did not vote shall be called upon to do so , or what steps shall be taken in regard to it . Mr. MASON . The usage always has been , as I recollect , since my entrance here ...
... vote . It will be for the Senate to say whether the Senators who did not vote shall be called upon to do so , or what steps shall be taken in regard to it . Mr. MASON . The usage always has been , as I recollect , since my entrance here ...
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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...