Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the RebellionD. Appleton, 1866 - 296 strani |
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... called in question . Hence , it be came necessary for the abolitionists , in order to furnish a pretext for their assaults on Southern slavery , to appeal to a law higher than the Constitution . Slavery , according to them , was a ...
... called in question . Hence , it be came necessary for the abolitionists , in order to furnish a pretext for their assaults on Southern slavery , to appeal to a law higher than the Constitution . Slavery , according to them , was a ...
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... called , in the lan- guage of the day , abolition petitions . Throughout the session of 1835-6 , and for several succeeding sessions , these petitions incessantly poured in to Congress . They prayed for the abolition of slavery in the ...
... called , in the lan- guage of the day , abolition petitions . Throughout the session of 1835-6 , and for several succeeding sessions , these petitions incessantly poured in to Congress . They prayed for the abolition of slavery in the ...
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... called " sinful and inhuman " law . State magistrates were prevailed upon by the abolitionists to refuse their agency in carrying it into effect . The Legislatures of several States , in conformity with this decision , passed laws ...
... called " sinful and inhuman " law . State magistrates were prevailed upon by the abolitionists to refuse their agency in carrying it into effect . The Legislatures of several States , in conformity with this decision , passed laws ...
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... called the Missouri restriction . * This proposed to require from Missouri , as a condition precedent to her admission as a State , that she should " ordain and establish that there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ...
... called the Missouri restriction . * This proposed to require from Missouri , as a condition precedent to her admission as a State , that she should " ordain and establish that there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude ...
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... called " the Kansas and Nebraska Bill . " On the question of repeal , a long and angry debate arose in both Houses of Congress . This consumed a large portion of the session , and exasperated the contending parties to a degree never ...
... called " the Kansas and Nebraska Bill . " On the question of repeal , a long and angry debate arose in both Houses of Congress . This consumed a large portion of the session , and exasperated the contending parties to a degree never ...
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Stran 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 ; nor can any one believe that our southern brethren, if left to themselves, would adopt it of their own accord. It is equally impossible, therefore, that we should behold such interposition in any form with indifference.
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 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...
Stran 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.
Stran 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.
Stran 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.