A History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension Or Restriction in the United States: From the Declaration of Independence to the Present Day. Mainly Compiled and Condensed from the Journals of Congress and Other Official Records, and Showing the Vote by Yeas and Nays on the Most Important Divisions in Either HouseDix, Edwards & Company, 1856 - 164 strani |
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... regulations re- specting the territory or other property , belonging to the United States : and nothing in this Consti- tution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States , or of any particular State . " 4 The ...
... regulations re- specting the territory or other property , belonging to the United States : and nothing in this Consti- tution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States , or of any particular State . " 4 The ...
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... regulations of the general govern- ment in all cases whatsoever . As a Territory they had not all the rights , advantages and im- munities , of citizens of the United States . Mr. S. himself furnished an example , that , in their ...
... regulations of the general govern- ment in all cases whatsoever . As a Territory they had not all the rights , advantages and im- munities , of citizens of the United States . Mr. S. himself furnished an example , that , in their ...
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... regulations , ' which of course include all such regulations as its own views of Bur - policy or expediency shall , from time to time , dic- tate . If , therefore , in its judgment it be needful for the benefit of a territory to enact a ...
... regulations , ' which of course include all such regulations as its own views of Bur - policy or expediency shall , from time to time , dic- tate . If , therefore , in its judgment it be needful for the benefit of a territory to enact a ...
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... regulations which do not exist in the original States , particularly in relation to the toleration of Slavery . After The House , very early in the session , passed a bill providing for the admission of Maine as a State . This bill came ...
... regulations which do not exist in the original States , particularly in relation to the toleration of Slavery . After The House , very early in the session , passed a bill providing for the admission of Maine as a State . This bill came ...
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... regulations of other States of this who are familiarly acquainted with its practical ef Confederacy ; which system of Slavery is held by all , fects , to be of highly beneficial influence to the country within whose limits it is ...
... regulations of other States of this who are familiarly acquainted with its practical ef Confederacy ; which system of Slavery is held by all , fects , to be of highly beneficial influence to the country within whose limits it is ...
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admission admitted adopted aforesaid amendment annexation appointed authority bill boundary California ceded citizens claim clause Committee Compromise condition Congress Constitution convention Court declared delegates district Douglas duty election emigration establish existing Federal Free-State further enacted gentlemen Governor gress held hereby inhabitants John John Landis Jones Judges Kansas Territory Kansas-Nebraska act legal votes legislative assembly legislature liberty Louisiana ment Messrs Mexico Missouri Missouri Compromise Missouri Territory Missourians moved Nays New-Mexico Norman Allen oath officers Ohio organic party passed Pawnee City persons polls portion precinct present President principle Pro-Slavery prohibited proposed question regulations Republic of Texas republican resolution Resolved Restriction ritory Senate session settlers sion slaveholding Slavery slaves South Tenn Terri Territorial government Territory of Kansas Territory of Nebraska Texas thereof tion tory treaty Union United voters Whigs William Yeas
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Stran 73 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Stran 84 - 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...
Stran 147 - Religion, morality, and knowledge, however, being essential to good government, it shall be the duty of the general assembly to pass suitable laws to protect every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship, and to encourage schools and the means of instruction.
Stran 26 - ... 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.
Stran 21 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Stran 147 - All men are by nature free and independent, and have certain inalienable rights, among which are those of enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; and pursuing and obtaining safety- and happiness.
Stran 147 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences...
Stran 83 - Nebraska, or to affect the authority of the government of the United States to make any regulations respecting such Indians, their lands, property, or other rights by treaty, law, or otherwise, which it would have been competent to the government to make if this act had never passed.
Stran 84 - Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory; but the qualifications of voters and of holding office at all subsequent elections shall be such as shall be prescribed by the legislative assembly: Provided, That the right of suffrage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States...
Stran 86 - March sixth, eighteen hundred and twenty, which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of eighteen hundred and fifty, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void...