A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential Nominations and Elections Including All the National Platforms Ever Yet Adopted, Also, a History of the Struggle Respecting Slavery in the Territories, and of the Action of Congress as to the Freedom of the Public Lands with the Most Notable Speeches and Letters of Messrs. Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Cass, Seward, Everett, Breckinridge, H.V. Johnson, Etc., Etc., Touching the Questions of the Day and Returns of All Presidential Elections Since 1836Tribune Association, 1860 - 254 páginas |
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... WILMOT Proviso through Legislative Resolves .... NEW - JERSEY LEGISLATURE FOR FREE TER- ritory 212 NEW - YORK FOR FREEDOM . - Resolutions of the Legislature against Slavery in the Territo- ries in 1820 , ..... 113 60 .... Ditto in 1847 ...
... WILMOT Proviso through Legislative Resolves .... NEW - JERSEY LEGISLATURE FOR FREE TER- ritory 212 NEW - YORK FOR FREEDOM . - Resolutions of the Legislature against Slavery in the Territo- ries in 1820 , ..... 113 60 .... Ditto in 1847 ...
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... Wilmot Proviso .... 71 127 The Clayton Compromise ; Mr. J. M. Root's Re- solve for Slavery Restriction ; Proposition of Isaac P. Walker of Wisconsin .. Proposition of Mr. Richard W. Thompson , of Ind .; Slavery excluded from Oregon ...
... Wilmot Proviso .... 71 127 The Clayton Compromise ; Mr. J. M. Root's Re- solve for Slavery Restriction ; Proposition of Isaac P. Walker of Wisconsin .. Proposition of Mr. Richard W. Thompson , of Ind .; Slavery excluded from Oregon ...
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... WILMOT , DAVID , of Pennsylvania , defeated for Vice - President in Republican Convention , 1856 Temporary Chairman ... Wilmot Proviso , & c , ......... ........ 249 | THE DRED SCOTT DECISION ... 253 251 SLAVERY IN NEW MEXICO , with the ...
... WILMOT , DAVID , of Pennsylvania , defeated for Vice - President in Republican Convention , 1856 Temporary Chairman ... Wilmot Proviso , & c , ......... ........ 249 | THE DRED SCOTT DECISION ... 253 251 SLAVERY IN NEW MEXICO , with the ...
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... Wilmot Proviso out and out . • say is , " this is a judicial question ; the majority of the Con- vention were of one opinion ; I may entertain my own opin- ion upon the question ; let the Supreme Court settle it . " Let us make a ...
... Wilmot Proviso out and out . • say is , " this is a judicial question ; the majority of the Con- vention were of one opinion ; I may entertain my own opin- ion upon the question ; let the Supreme Court settle it . " Let us make a ...
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... Wilmot Proviso , and to exclude Slavery from the Territories ; and now , when the Supreme Court has said that it has not that power , he comes forward and tells Mississippians that that same Congress is impotent to protect that same ...
... Wilmot Proviso , and to exclude Slavery from the Territories ; and now , when the Supreme Court has said that it has not that power , he comes forward and tells Mississippians that that same Congress is impotent to protect that same ...
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adjourned admission admitted adopted amendment Arkansas authority ballot bill CALEB CUSHING candidate citizens claim Clay Committee Compromise Congress Constitution Convention Court declared Delaware delegates Democracy Democratic party District domestic Douglas Dred Scott duty election emigrants enacted equal existing favor Federal Free-State gentlemen Georgia Governor House Illinois inhabitants institutions John judges Kansas Kentucky land Lecompton Constitution legislation Louisiana majority Maryland Massachusetts ment Messrs Mississippi Missouri Missouri Compromise Missourians motion National Nays Nebraska negro New-Hampshire New-Jersey New-York nomination North Carolina Ohio opinion organized passed Pennsylvania persons platform political polls present President principles prohibition protection question Representatives Republican resolutions Resolved ritory Scott Senate settlers slaveholding Slavery slaves South Southern stitution submitted Tennessee Territorial Government Territorial Legislature Territory of Kansas Texas tion Topeka Constitution tution Union United Virginia vote voters Whig Wilmot Proviso Yeas
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Página 201 - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America. This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective governments.
Página 249 - Government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no farther 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...
Página 113 - 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...
Página 63 - ... 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 26 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 249 - Resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Página 58 - 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.
Página 76 - States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire. And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery or involuntary servitude (except for crime) shall be prohibited.
Página 177 - The Congress, the executive, and the court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Página 141 - 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...