| Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 394 էջ
...framed to placate pro-slavery sentiment. Abolitionist societies were "highly disapproved" and the right of congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia against the consent of the citizens was denied. It is worthy of note that in a time of intense excitement when... | |
| Abraham Lincoln - 1903 - 460 էջ
...framed to placate pro-slavery sentiment. Abolitionist societies were "highly disapproved" and the right of congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia against the consent of the citizens was denied. It is worthy of note that in a time of intense excitement when... | |
| Francis Newton Thorpe - 1904 - 478 էջ
...his inaugural was that of his inflexible and uncompromising determination to oppose the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia against the wishes of the slaveholding states, and to resist the slightest federal interference with slavery in states where it existed.1 But there were... | |
| Francis Bellamy - 1905 - 536 էջ
...say that he would "go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of any attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery...Columbia, against the wishes of the slave-holding States." The coolness and candour of his judgment on the constitutional point emphasized his devotion to Southern... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1906 - 410 էջ
...hammered into shape as the basis of the Democratic party. 1 On slavery, Van Buren declared himself the "inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every...the wishes of the slave-holding states "; and also equally determined "to resist the slightest interference with it in the states where it exists"; mob... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1906 - 402 էջ
...had hammered into shape as the basis of the Democratic party.1 On slavery, Van Buren declared himself the "inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every...the wishes of the slave-holding states"; and also equally determined "to resist the slightest interference with it in the states where it exists"; mob... | |
| John Bach McMaster - 1906 - 726 էջ
...much to approve and little to condemn. The South was comforted by the assurance that he took office " the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every...against the wishes of the slave-holding States," and that he looked on the Constitution " as limited to natural objects," and " as leaving to the people... | |
| Clarence Edwin Carter - 1906 - 210 էջ
...of 1836: "I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible andunc compromising opponent of any attempt on the part of congress to abolish slavery...in the District of Columbia, against the wishes of slaveholding states"(I) .Hie ablest biographer admits that this statement was made to ease the minds... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1906 - 410 էջ
...-District of Columbia against the •wishes of the slave-holding states " ; and also equally determined "to resist the slightest interference with it in the states where it exists ^J mob violence against the abolitionists he condoned because a "reckless disregard of the consequences... | |
| Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - 1912 - 692 էջ
...heart among the cattle. Mr. Van Buren said, in his inaugural address, that he went in the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of...interference with it in the States where it exists. Poor little Matty made this rhapsodical sweep with the fact before his eyes, thac the State of New... | |
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