A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United States: From the Declaration of Independence to the Present Day. Mainly Compiled and Condensed from the Journals of Congress and Other Official Records, and Showing the Vote by Yeas and Nays on the Most Important Divisions in Either HouseDix, Edwards & Company, 1856 - 164 էջ |
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... held in vir- tual bondage by force rather of custom than of positive law , serve rather to establish than disprove this general statement . Africa , whom their eternal wars and maraud- ing invasions were constantly exposing to captivity ...
... held in vir- tual bondage by force rather of custom than of positive law , serve rather to establish than disprove this general statement . Africa , whom their eternal wars and maraud- ing invasions were constantly exposing to captivity ...
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... held this declaration a bar to slaveholding henceforth in the state . A similar clause in the second Constitution of New - Hampshire , was held by the courts of that State to secure freedom to every child , born therein after its ...
... held this declaration a bar to slaveholding henceforth in the state . A similar clause in the second Constitution of New - Hampshire , was held by the courts of that State to secure freedom to every child , born therein after its ...
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... held as slaves in England , and that even baptism was no bar to the mas- ter's claim . This opinion was , in 1749 , held to be sound law by Yorke ( now Lord Hard- wicke ) , sitting as Judge , on the ground that , if the contrary ruling ...
... held as slaves in England , and that even baptism was no bar to the mas- ter's claim . This opinion was , in 1749 , held to be sound law by Yorke ( now Lord Hard- wicke ) , sitting as Judge , on the ground that , if the contrary ruling ...
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... held to service or labor in one State , under the laws thereof , escaping into another , shall , in consequence of any law or regu lation therein , be discharged from such service or labor , but shall be delivered up on claim of the ...
... held to service or labor in one State , under the laws thereof , escaping into another , shall , in consequence of any law or regu lation therein , be discharged from such service or labor , but shall be delivered up on claim of the ...
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... held at service or labor , ' was proposed by Mr. Butler , of South Carolina , and adopted , with little or no opposition . The following , among the amendments to the Constitution proposed by the ratifying conventions of one or more ...
... held at service or labor , ' was proposed by Mr. Butler , of South Carolina , and adopted , with little or no opposition . The following , among the amendments to the Constitution proposed by the ratifying conventions of one or more ...
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A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United ... Horace Greeley Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1856 |
A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United ... Horace Greeley Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1856 |
A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United ... Horace Greeley Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1856 |
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Էջ 73 - 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 84 - 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...
Էջ 147 - Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction.
Էջ 26 - ... provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Էջ 21 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in 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, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Էջ 147 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety- and happiness.
Էջ 147 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Էջ 83 - Nebraska, or to affect the authority of the government of the United States to make any regulations respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to the government to make if this act had never passed.
Էջ 84 - Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory; but the qualifications of voters and of holding office at all subsequent elections shall be such as shall be prescribed by the legislative assembly: Provided, That the right of suffrage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States...
Էջ 86 - March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void...