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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... sessions in Philadelphia di- reasons , occasion , and time itself whence it was created , is erased from the memory . It is so odi - rectly after the close of that exhausting strug ous that nothing can be sufficient to support it but ...
... sessions in Philadelphia di- reasons , occasion , and time itself whence it was created , is erased from the memory . It is so odi - rectly after the close of that exhausting strug ous that nothing can be sufficient to support it but ...
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... Session , was referred at the next to a new Committee , whereof Cæsar Rodney , a new Representative from Delaware , was Chairman . Mr. Rodney from this Commit- tee reported ( February 17th , 1804 ) , " That , taking into their ...
... Session , was referred at the next to a new Committee , whereof Cæsar Rodney , a new Representative from Delaware , was Chairman . Mr. Rodney from this Commit- tee reported ( February 17th , 1804 ) , " That , taking into their ...
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... session , a fresh letter from Gov. William Henry Harrison , inclosing re- solves of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives in favor of suspending , for a limited period , the sixth article of compact aforesaid , was ...
... session , a fresh letter from Gov. William Henry Harrison , inclosing re- solves of the Legislative Council and House of Representatives in favor of suspending , for a limited period , the sixth article of compact aforesaid , was ...
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... session . That Congress convened at Washington | Mason , Henry Shaw - 3 . NEW - YORK . - Daniel Cruger , David A. VI . THE FIRST MISSOURI STRUGGLE . THE vast and indefinite territory known as Louisiana , was ceded by France to the ...
... session . That Congress convened at Washington | Mason , Henry Shaw - 3 . NEW - YORK . - Daniel Cruger , David A. VI . THE FIRST MISSOURI STRUGGLE . THE vast and indefinite territory known as Louisiana , was ceded by France to the ...
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... session of Congress , for the good tidings , that on them you had conferred the glorious privilege of self - government , and independence . What seeds of discord will you sow , when they read this suspicious , shameful ...
... session of Congress , for the good tidings , that on them you had conferred the glorious privilege of self - government , and independence . What seeds of discord will you sow , when they read this suspicious , shameful ...
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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...