The Republican Party and Its Presidential Candidates: With Sketches of Fremont and DaytonMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856 - 512 páginas |
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... slave power , which was left in certain states in the form of a local despotism by the framers of the constitution , assailed the original theory of the republic , and arose by consecutive steps during subsequent administrations , into ...
... slave power , which was left in certain states in the form of a local despotism by the framers of the constitution , assailed the original theory of the republic , and arose by consecutive steps during subsequent administrations , into ...
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... Slave Power - Monetary Pressure Suspension of Specie Payments - Special Session of Congress Called - President Recommends an Independent Treasury - Measure Defeated - Annexation of Texas Proposed -The Debate thereon - Proposition ...
... Slave Power - Monetary Pressure Suspension of Specie Payments - Special Session of Congress Called - President Recommends an Independent Treasury - Measure Defeated - Annexation of Texas Proposed -The Debate thereon - Proposition ...
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... Slavery - Efforts to Overbear Him - His Death- Accession of Fillmore - Change of Cabinet and Policy - De- fers to Slavery - Encourages a Schism and formation of a New Party - Seceders styled Silver Grays - President favors the ...
... Slavery - Efforts to Overbear Him - His Death- Accession of Fillmore - Change of Cabinet and Policy - De- fers to Slavery - Encourages a Schism and formation of a New Party - Seceders styled Silver Grays - President favors the ...
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... slaves from places without the United States , and did not in terms prohibit the practice of slavery in Louisiana , affirmed the right of congress , which had theretofore been exercised affirma- tively in respect to the north - western ...
... slaves from places without the United States , and did not in terms prohibit the practice of slavery in Louisiana , affirmed the right of congress , which had theretofore been exercised affirma- tively in respect to the north - western ...
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... slave trade , and by his written indictment of slavery itself , " as the perpetual exercise of the most unremitting despotism on the one part , and the most degrading sub- mission on the other , " the resulting influence of his life and ...
... slave trade , and by his written indictment of slavery itself , " as the perpetual exercise of the most unremitting despotism on the one part , and the most degrading sub- mission on the other , " the resulting influence of his life and ...
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Página 115 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent, without endangering our peace and happiness...
Página 33 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Página 228 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Página 33 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Página 415 - That Congress has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution...
Página 421 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise 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...
Página 99 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. 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.
Página 34 - Still one thing more, fellowcitizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 197 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and...
Página 33 - Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth.