The Congressional Globe ...Printed at the Globe Office for the editors, 1859 |
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Strana 76
... honorable Senators from the North , and those whom they represent , now speak of as a line founded in sacred compact , that was intended to give repose and peace to the country , and did give it ; and yet when in after years further ...
... honorable Senators from the North , and those whom they represent , now speak of as a line founded in sacred compact , that was intended to give repose and peace to the country , and did give it ; and yet when in after years further ...
Strana 77
... honorable Senator from New York , avowed to the country and to his party as their theory of action in the administration of the Government . tors on the other side , whose specially is to prevent the extension of slavery , and thus ...
... honorable Senator from New York , avowed to the country and to his party as their theory of action in the administration of the Government . tors on the other side , whose specially is to prevent the extension of slavery , and thus ...
Strana 78
... honorable Senator suggests , because he has not yet matured it in his own mind , as he tells us . Mr. SEWARD . The honorable Senator will indulge me in one word more . Perhaps I ought to have added that I do expect that the court will ...
... honorable Senator suggests , because he has not yet matured it in his own mind , as he tells us . Mr. SEWARD . The honorable Senator will indulge me in one word more . Perhaps I ought to have added that I do expect that the court will ...
Strana 79
... honorable Senator from Louisiana , that Lord Mansfield's decision in the Sommersett case would have been received , even by the honorable Sena- tor from Maine , and as I think it will by all when the passions of the day subside on the ...
... honorable Senator from Louisiana , that Lord Mansfield's decision in the Sommersett case would have been received , even by the honorable Sena- tor from Maine , and as I think it will by all when the passions of the day subside on the ...
Strana 80
... honorable Senators would represent a slaveholder to be the owner of his property in a slave . I say , then , it is a mere catch - word , an un- founded dogma , that has no position in law or in sense , to say that there can be no ...
... honorable Senators would represent a slaveholder to be the owner of his property in a slave . I say , then , it is a mere catch - word , an un- founded dogma , that has no position in law or in sense , to say that there can be no ...
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Strana 75 - ... inquire whether the Constitution has been preserved inviolate in every part, during the last septenary (including the year of their service) ; and whether the legislative and executive branches of government have performed their duty, as guardians of the people, or assumed to themselves, or exercised, other or greater powers than they are entitled to by the Constitution...
Strana 5 - ... 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...
Strana 170 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain.
Strana 182 - 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 ; but no law shall be passed interfering with the primary disposal of the soil; no tax shall be imposed upon the property of the United States; nor shall the lands or other property of non-residents be taxed higher than the lands or other property of residents.
Strana 145 - Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Strana 71 - In all social systems there must be a class to do the menial duties, to perform the drudgery of life. That is, a class requiring but a low order of intellect and but little skill. Its requisites are vigor, docility, fidelity. Such a class you must have, or you would not have that other class which leads progress, civilization, and refinement.
Strana 3 - ... the perfect neutrality of the before-mentioned Isthmus, with the view that the free transit from the one to the other sea may not be interrupted or embarrassed in any future time while this treaty exists : and in consequence, the United States also guarantee, in the same manner, the rights of sovereignty and property which New Granada has and possesses over the said territory.
Strana 88 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law...
Strana 5 - then the article providing for Slavery shall be stricken from the constitution by the president of this Convention ;" and it is expressly declared that " no Slavery shall exist in the State of Kansas, except that the right of property in slaves now in the Territory shall in no manner be interfered with...
Strana 4 - Nebraska; and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...