Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the RebellionD. Appleton, 1866 - 296 strani |
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... Convention at Topeka , had framed a State Constitution , had elected their own Governor and Legislature to take the place of those in the actual administration of the Territorial Govern- ment , and had applied to Congress for admission ...
... Convention at Topeka , had framed a State Constitution , had elected their own Governor and Legislature to take the place of those in the actual administration of the Territorial Govern- ment , and had applied to Congress for admission ...
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... Convention , in sufficient number to frame a free State Constitution preparatory to admission into the Union . They could no longer expect ever to be admitted as a State under the Topeka Constitution . The thirty - fourth Con- gress had ...
... Convention , in sufficient number to frame a free State Constitution preparatory to admission into the Union . They could no longer expect ever to be admitted as a State under the Topeka Constitution . The thirty - fourth Con- gress had ...
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... convention should be held and conducted with perfect fairness to both parties , so that the genuine voice of the people might be truly heard and obeyed . This duty he performed with fidelity and ability , but unfortunately without ...
... convention should be held and conducted with perfect fairness to both parties , so that the genuine voice of the people might be truly heard and obeyed . This duty he performed with fidelity and ability , but unfortunately without ...
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... convention of delegates chosen by the people themselves . That convention is now about to be elected by you under the call of the Territorial Legislature , created and still recognized by the authority of Congress , and clothed by it ...
... convention of delegates chosen by the people themselves . That convention is now about to be elected by you under the call of the Territorial Legislature , created and still recognized by the authority of Congress , and clothed by it ...
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... convention , not because , from circumstances which I need not detail , there was an omission to register the comparatively few voters who were inhabitants of certain coun- ties of Kansas in the early spring of 1857 , but because they ...
... convention , not because , from circumstances which I need not detail , there was an omission to register the comparatively few voters who were inhabitants of certain coun- ties of Kansas in the early spring of 1857 , but because they ...
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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.