Slavery in the District of Columbia: The Policy of Congress and the Struggle for AbolitionG. P. Putnam's sons, 1892 - 100 strani |
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Stran 68 - that all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers relating in any way to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever be had thereon.
Stran 76 - the entire abolition of slavery in the United States. While it admits that each State in which slavery exists has, by the constitution of the United states, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said State, it shall aim to convince all our fellow-citizens, . . . that slave-holding is a heinous crime.
Stran 70 - is hereby acknowledged to be forever ceded and relinquished to the Congress and Government of the United States, in full and absolute right and exclusive jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon
Stran 82 - I must go into the presidential chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of any attempt on the part of Congress to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia against the wishes of the slave-holding states.
Stran 76 - The society will also endeavor, in a constitutional way, to influence Congress to put an end to the domestic slave trade, and to abolish slavery in all those portions of our common country, which come under its control, especially in the District of Columbia.
Stran 73 - That this General Assembly would regard any act of Congress having for its object the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, or the territories of the United States, as affording just cause of alarm to the slave-holding states, and bringing the Union into imminent peril.
Stran 68 - in the District of Columbia be referred to a select committee with instructions to report that " Congress ought not to interfere in any way with slavery in the District of Columbia, because it wo.uld be a violation of the public faith, unwise, impolitic, and dangerous to the Union.
Stran 86 - capital freed from the institution in some satisfactory way. Hence there has never been in my mind any question upon the subject, except the one of expediency, arising in view of all the circumstances. If there be matters within and about
Stran 4 - (in regard to that part of the District which was ceded by the State of Maryland) of such of the English statutes as existed at the time of the first emigration to Maryland, ' and which by experience had been found applicable to their local and other circumstances, and of such others as had been since made in England or Great Britain, and had been introduced, used, and
Stran 27 - other than what every common freeman does ; neither is any servant required to do more in a day than his overseer ; and I can assure you, with great truth, that generally their slaves are not worked near so hard, nor so many hours in a day, as the husbandmen and day laborers in
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