Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the RebellionD. Appleton, 1866 - 296 էջ |
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... American people would never suffer the Great Charter of their rights to be destroyed . To the Constitution , as interpreted by its framers , he has ever been devoted , believing that the specific powers which it confers on the Federal ...
... American people would never suffer the Great Charter of their rights to be destroyed . To the Constitution , as interpreted by its framers , he has ever been devoted , believing that the specific powers which it confers on the Federal ...
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... American character . It is not our purpose to recapitulate these sad events . Whilst the pro - slavery party in the Territory sustained the Government in all its branches which had been established over it by Congress , the anti ...
... American character . It is not our purpose to recapitulate these sad events . Whilst the pro - slavery party in the Territory sustained the Government in all its branches which had been established over it by Congress , the anti ...
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... American remedy for the redress of all grievances - undertook to create an indepen- dent government for themselves . Had this attempt proved suc- cessful , it would of course have subverted the existing govern- ment , prescribed and ...
... American remedy for the redress of all grievances - undertook to create an indepen- dent government for themselves . Had this attempt proved suc- cessful , it would of course have subverted the existing govern- ment , prescribed and ...
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... American people to realize the fact that any portion of them should be in a state of rebellion against the Government under which they live . When we speak of the affairs of Kansas , we are apt to refer merely to the existence of two ...
... American people to realize the fact that any portion of them should be in a state of rebellion against the Government under which they live . When we speak of the affairs of Kansas , we are apt to refer merely to the existence of two ...
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... American freedom , and are recognized , I believe , in some form or other , by every State constitution ; and if Con- gress , in the act of admission , should think proper to recognize them , I can perceive no objection to such a course ...
... American freedom , and are recognized , I believe , in some form or other , by every State constitution ; and if Con- gress , in the act of admission , should think proper to recognize them , I can perceive no objection to such a course ...
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Էջ 281 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent without endangering our peace and happiness...
Էջ 19 - Provided, That as an express and fundamental condition to, the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty which may be negotiated between them, and to the use by the Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Էջ 278 - The question presented by the letters you have sent me is the most momentous which has ever been offered to my contemplation since that of independence. That made us a nation; this sets our compass and points the course which we are to steer through the ocean of time opening on- us; and never could we embark on it under circumstances more auspicious.
Էջ 58 - Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and, therefore, ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slave-holding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Էջ 283 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be, to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Էջ 280 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise, and in the arrangements by which they may terminate, the occasion has been judged proper for asserting as a principle in which the rights, and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Էջ 279 - Great Britain is the nation which can do us the most harm of any one, or all on earth, and with her on our side we need not fear the whole world. With her, then, we should most sedulously cherish a cordial friendship...
Էջ 253 - All the powers of government, legislative, executive and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Էջ 253 - ... in a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and the duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired (by a supposed influence over the people) with an intrepid confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes;...
Էջ 67 - That the government of a Territory organized by an act of Congress is provisional and temporary, and during its existence all citizens of the United States have an equal right to settle with their property in the Territory, without their rights, either of person or property, being destroyed or impaired by Congressional or Territorial legislation.