 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 37 էջ
...with a view of abolishing the one and promoting the other. " Resolved, therefore. That all attempts on the part of Congress to abolish Slavery in the District of Columbia or the Territories, or to prohibit the removal of slaves from State to State, or to discriminate... | |
 | Henry Clay
...conservatives 1. Niles' Register (Oct. 6, 1838), 55:82. 3. Van Buren had pledged that he would be an "uncompromising opponent of every attempt on the part...interference with it in the States where it exists." MPP, 3:318-19. 4. The fifth annual meeting of the American Anti-Slavery Society met at the Broadway... | |
 | John V. Denson - 2001 - 791 էջ
...Buren countered with an announcement that he was "the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of any attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery...of Columbia, against the wishes of the slaveholding states."35 He also went along with various "Gag Rules" on receiving abolitionist petitions that Congress... | |
 | Robert E. Shalhope, Robert E.. Shalhope, Hiram Harwood, Benjamin Harwood - 2003 - 313 էջ
...Printing Office, 189699), 3:313-20. In this speech Van Buren referred to his campaign promise to remain "the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every...interference with it in the States where it exists." He also warned against "dangerous agitation" of the issue (318). 87. HD, n, 16 May 1837. CHAPTER 8.... | |
 | United States. President - 1897 - 7116 էջ
...of my countrymen who were favorable to my election was gratified ' ' I must go into the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of...exists. ' ' I submitted also to my fellow-citizens, with fullness and frankness, the reasons which led me to this determination. The result authorizes me to... | |
 | David A. Smith - 2005 - 138 էջ
...those of my countrymen who were favorable to my election was gratified "I must go into the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of...interference with it in the States where it exists." ... It now only remains to add that no bill conflicting with these views can ever receive my constitutional... | |
 | Walter Johnson - 2008 - 400 էջ
...right to do indirectly what it cannot do directly, he included a resolution stating that "all attempts on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia or the Territories, or to prohibit the removal of slaves from State to State, . . . are in... | |
 | Paul Calore - 2014 - 308 էջ
...humane, patriotic, expedient, honorable, and just." Van Buren declared as president he would be an "inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt...slaveholding States, and also with a determination equally resolute to resist the slightest interference with it in the States where it exists." As the new Democratic... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - 1907
...of my countrymen who were favorable to my election was gratified ' ' I must go into the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of...exists. ' ' I submitted also to my fellow-citizens, with fullness and frankness, the reasons which led me to this determination. The result authorizes me to... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1853 - 71 էջ
...elected, he " must 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 slaveholding States." The latter was certified, in the address of his friends to the electors of Virginia, to be " sound... | |
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I must go into the Presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia against the wishes of the slaveholding States, and also with a determination equally... 
