Life of Stephen A. Douglas: United States Senator from IllinoisDerby & Jackson, 1860 - 457 էջ |
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... honor of our flag and in prosecuting the war with a vigor and prudence that led to an honorable and satisfactory peace . In this period , too , Mr. Douglas is seen endeavoring to carry out in good faith the principles of the Missouri ...
... honor of our flag and in prosecuting the war with a vigor and prudence that led to an honorable and satisfactory peace . In this period , too , Mr. Douglas is seen endeavoring to carry out in good faith the principles of the Missouri ...
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... honor of this nation were solemnly pledged . Yet , in violation of one of them , Texas was ceded to Spain by the treaty of 1819. The American Republic was severed by that treaty , a part of its territory joined to a foreign kingdom ...
... honor of this nation were solemnly pledged . Yet , in violation of one of them , Texas was ceded to Spain by the treaty of 1819. The American Republic was severed by that treaty , a part of its territory joined to a foreign kingdom ...
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... honor , I would exert all legal and honorable means to drive Great Britain , and the last vestiges of royal authority , from the continent of North America , and extend the limits of the Republic from ocean to ocean . I would make this ...
... honor , I would exert all legal and honorable means to drive Great Britain , and the last vestiges of royal authority , from the continent of North America , and extend the limits of the Republic from ocean to ocean . I would make this ...
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... honor . Henry Clay , the great leader of the Whigs , did not , indeed , join in this shameful cry . His eldest son , Henry Clay , jr . , fought gallantly in the war , and fell at Buena Vista : and the old patriot was not one of those ...
... honor . Henry Clay , the great leader of the Whigs , did not , indeed , join in this shameful cry . His eldest son , Henry Clay , jr . , fought gallantly in the war , and fell at Buena Vista : and the old patriot was not one of those ...
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... honors of a seat on this floor . " KOSSUTH . On the 11th December , 1851 , when the resolution giving a national welcome to Louis Kossuth , of Hungary , was pend- ing before the Senate , Mr. Douglas said : " I regret that this ...
... honors of a seat on this floor . " KOSSUTH . On the 11th December , 1851 , when the resolution giving a national welcome to Louis Kossuth , of Hungary , was pend- ing before the Senate , Mr. Douglas said : " I regret that this ...
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Էջ 107 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Էջ 60 - 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; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States ; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Էջ 62 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Էջ 164 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void...
Էջ 129 - ... Those police regulations can only be established by the local legislature ; and if the people are opposed to slavery, they will elect representatives to that body who will by unfriendly legislation effectually prevent the introduction of it into their midst. If, on the contrary, they are for it, their legislation will favor its extension. Hence, no matter what the decision of the Supreme Court may be on that abstract question, still the right of the people to make a Slave Territory or a Free...
Էջ 59 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; 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 61 - That nothing herein contained shall be construed to apply to or affect the provisions of the "act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Էջ 132 - This legislation is founded upon principles as ancient as free government itself, and in accordance with them has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits.
Էջ 128 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution ? 2 1 See Appendix A, Lecompton Constitution.
Էջ 59 - an act to authorize the people of the Missouri Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories...