Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the RebellionD. Appleton, 1866 - 296 էջ |
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... period ? The answer is , that the publication was delayed to avoid the possible imputation , un- just as this would ... periods . Having drawn his first breath soon after the adoption of the Federal Constitu- tion and the Union which it ...
... period ? The answer is , that the publication was delayed to avoid the possible imputation , un- just as this would ... periods . Having drawn his first breath soon after the adoption of the Federal Constitu- tion and the Union which it ...
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... resisted these ef- forts , and vindicated its preservation and extension up till the period of secession . So excited were the parties , that had they intended to furnish material to inflame the passions of the iv PREFACE .
... resisted these ef- forts , and vindicated its preservation and extension up till the period of secession . So excited were the parties , that had they intended to furnish material to inflame the passions of the iv PREFACE .
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... period nobody loved slavery for its own sake . Besides Virginia , whose example has always exercised great influence on her sister States , was , in 1832 , on the verge of emancipation . * The current was then running strong in its ...
... period nobody loved slavery for its own sake . Besides Virginia , whose example has always exercised great influence on her sister States , was , in 1832 , on the verge of emancipation . * The current was then running strong in its ...
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... period , they scattered throughout the slaveholding States pamphlets , newspapers , and pictorial representations of an incendiary character , calculated to arouse the savage passions of the slaves to servile insurrection . So alarming ...
... period , they scattered throughout the slaveholding States pamphlets , newspapers , and pictorial representations of an incendiary character , calculated to arouse the savage passions of the slaves to servile insurrection . So alarming ...
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... period not a single Senator from New England , whether political friend or opponent of General Jackson , voted in favor of the measure he had so emphatically recommended . All the Senators from that portion of the Union , under the lead ...
... period not a single Senator from New England , whether political friend or opponent of General Jackson , voted in favor of the measure he had so emphatically recommended . All the Senators from that portion of the Union , under the lead ...
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Էջ 278 - 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.
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.
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; and nothing would tend more to knit our affections than to be fighting once more, side by side, in the same cause.
Էջ 122 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
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 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 18 - 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 that 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 67 - 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.
Էջ 87 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.