The Nebraska QuestionRed-field, 1854 - 120 էջ |
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... humanity : We ask whether they ought not to operate on the present occasion with all their force ? We have a strong feeling of the injustice of any toleration of Slavery . Circumstances have entailed it on a portion of our community ...
... humanity : We ask whether they ought not to operate on the present occasion with all their force ? We have a strong feeling of the injustice of any toleration of Slavery . Circumstances have entailed it on a portion of our community ...
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... human science and art . The old world and the past were allotted by Providence to the pupilage of mankind , under the hard discipline of arbitrary power , quelling the vio- lence of human passions . The new world and the future seem to ...
... human science and art . The old world and the past were allotted by Providence to the pupilage of mankind , under the hard discipline of arbitrary power , quelling the vio- lence of human passions . The new world and the future seem to ...
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... human rights in one region for liberty in another region . But California brings gold and commerce as well as freedom . I am , then , to surrender some portion of human freedom in the District of Columbia , and in East California and ...
... human rights in one region for liberty in another region . But California brings gold and commerce as well as freedom . I am , then , to surrender some portion of human freedom in the District of Columbia , and in East California and ...
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... human power to fasten on ourselves . You believe and think other- wise , and doubtless with equal sincerity . We judge you not , and He alone who ordained the conscience of man and its laws of action can judge us . then , in this ...
... human power to fasten on ourselves . You believe and think other- wise , and doubtless with equal sincerity . We judge you not , and He alone who ordained the conscience of man and its laws of action can judge us . then , in this ...
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... human dominion . The title of that dominion , thus be- stowed , would have been incomplete , if the Lord of all terrestrial things could himself have been the property of his fellow - man . The right to have a slave implies the right in ...
... human dominion . The title of that dominion , thus be- stowed , would have been incomplete , if the Lord of all terrestrial things could himself have been the property of his fellow - man . The right to have a slave implies the right in ...
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Էջ 57 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Էջ 32 - ... and each of the said district courts shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction, in all cases arising under the Constitution and laws of the United States...
Էջ 81 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : 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 111 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Էջ 31 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirtysix degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited.
Էջ 30 - ... beginning at a point on the western boundary of the State of Missouri, where the thirty-seventh parallel of north latitude crosses the same ; thence west on said parallel to the...
Էջ 50 - That after the year 1800 of the Christian era there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty.
Էջ 44 - States, except the section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March 6, 1820, which was superseded by the principles of the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise measures, and is declared inoperative.
Էջ 6 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated into the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States...
Էջ 14 - That the provisions of an act entitled "an act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...