The Great Conspiracy: Its Origin and HistoryA.R. Hart & Company, 1886 - 810 pages |
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... Constitution a similar clause to that which we have seen was almost simultaneously incorporated in the Ordinance of '87 , touching the reclamation and return to their owners of Fugitive Slaves from the Free States into which they may ...
... Constitution a similar clause to that which we have seen was almost simultaneously incorporated in the Ordinance of '87 , touching the reclamation and return to their owners of Fugitive Slaves from the Free States into which they may ...
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... Constitution as to amount to an undisguised dec- laration that that compact is not meant to be the measure of the powers of the General Government , but that it will proceed in the exercise over these States , of all powers what- soever ...
... Constitution as to amount to an undisguised dec- laration that that compact is not meant to be the measure of the powers of the General Government , but that it will proceed in the exercise over these States , of all powers what- soever ...
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... Constitution is a " compact between the States , " that “ in case of a plain , palpable violation of the Constitution by the General Government , a State may interpose ; and that this interposition is constitutional " -a proposition ...
... Constitution is a " compact between the States , " that “ in case of a plain , palpable violation of the Constitution by the General Government , a State may interpose ; and that this interposition is constitutional " -a proposition ...
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... Constitution , admitted to the Union as a Slave State , with the sole reservation , that nothing in the Act of admission should be " construed as an assent by Congress to all or any of the propositions con- tained " in the said Constitution ...
... Constitution , admitted to the Union as a Slave State , with the sole reservation , that nothing in the Act of admission should be " construed as an assent by Congress to all or any of the propositions con- tained " in the said Constitution ...
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... Constitution as it is established , with whatever regrets about some provisions which it does actually con- tain . But to coerce it into silence , to endeavor to restrain its free expression , to seek to compress and confine it , warm ...
... Constitution as it is established , with whatever regrets about some provisions which it does actually con- tain . But to coerce it into silence , to endeavor to restrain its free expression , to seek to compress and confine it , warm ...
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Page 439 - That on the first day of January, in the year of "our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty"three, all persons held as slaves within any State or "designated part of a State, the people whereof shall "then be in rebellion against the United States, shall "be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Page 682 - 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...
Page 18 - States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Page 184 - Such of you as are now dissatisfied still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are...
Page 629 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offences which, in the Providence of God, must needs come, but which having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Page 514 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.
Page 11 - ... 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.
Page 497 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Page 50 - We are now far into the fifth year, since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. ' A house divided against itself cannot stand/ I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
Page 3 - Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.