 | Everette Beach Long - 1981 - 342 páginas
...Mormons. In 1856 the first Republican platform adopted at the National Convention proclaimed that it was the duty of Congress to "prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery. . . ." 12 As for Lincoln, he had been an Illinois legislator and active... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1981 - 340 páginas
...platform. It declared that the Constitution conferred upon Congress “sovereign powers over the Terntories of the United States for their government,” and that in the exercise of those powers it was both the right and duty of Congress “to prohibit in the Territories those twin... | |
 | Leonard J. Arrington - 1986 - 564 páginas
...would certainly vote to support plural marriage. By 1856 Republicans were insisting on the right and duty of Congress to "prohibit in the Territories those...twin relics of barbarism—Polygamy and Slavery." 4 The Democrats, not wishing to imply support of polygamy by their support of slavery, became just... | |
 | Historical Society of Southern California - 1884 - 508 páginas
...year 1887, on page 107. It is in these words : " Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United...to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism— polygamy and slavery." In regard to this resolution and more particularly in regard to... | |
 | William E. Gienapp Professor of History Harvard University - 1987 - 602 páginas
...Congress had "sovereign powers" over the territories, and that it was "both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those...twin relics of barbarism—Polygamy, and Slavery." Without mincing words, the platform thus incorporated one of the cardinal demands of the old Liberty... | |
 | Richard Franklin Bensel - 1990 - 472 páginas
...As early as i 8¿6, the party platform had asserted “That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the Territories of the United...for their government, and that in the exercise of the power it is both the right and duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics... | |
 | Kenneth M. Stampp - 1992 - 411 páginas
...immediate admission of Kansas as a free state, and contended that it was "both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those...twin relics of barbarism—Polygamy and Slavery." 4 Their campaign stressed the need to protect the rights of free labor by checking the aggressions... | |
 | Thomas A. Tweed - 1997 - 324 páginas
...Marino, Calif.: Huntington Library, 1971), 56. The Republican party platform of 1856 claimed that it was the "duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories...those twin relics of barbarism—Polygamy and Slavery" (Cannon, "Awesome Power," 62). 59. Harriet Beecher Stowe's preface to TEH Stenhouse, Tell It All (Hartford,... | |
 | Thomas R. Rochon - 1998 - 306 páginas
...electoral success in 1856, running on a platform declaring that "it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism—Polygamy and Slavery" (Johnson and Porter 1973). Three years after the Republican Party debut, church bells tolled and rallieswere... | |
 | Stephen B. Oates - 2009 - 522 páginas
...upon Congress sovereign power oven the Territories, and that it is both the right and the imperative duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery.' This is what we believe. We don't advocate meddling with slavery... | |
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sovereign power over the Territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin relics of barbarism,—Polygamy and Slavery. 
