Slavery: Letters and SpeechesB.B. Mussey & Company, 1851 - 564 Seiten Tharp collection. |
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... interests ; and , notwithstanding such has been the practice of the government for sixty years , under Jefferson , Madison , Monroe , Jackson , and others , it is now denied that Congress has any right to legislate on the subject of 22.
... interests ; and , notwithstanding such has been the practice of the government for sixty years , under Jefferson , Madison , Monroe , Jackson , and others , it is now denied that Congress has any right to legislate on the subject of 22.
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... interest . I repeat , then , that the north cannot shut out the south from the new territories by a law for excluding slavery , more effectually than the south will shut out the north by the fact of introducing slavery . Even admitting ...
... interest . I repeat , then , that the north cannot shut out the south from the new territories by a law for excluding slavery , more effectually than the south will shut out the north by the fact of introducing slavery . Even admitting ...
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... interest as any part of the country , adverse to the extension of slavery . If all our new territory be doomed to slavery , where can the non - slaveholders of the slaveholding states emigrate to ? Are they not to be considered ? Has ...
... interest as any part of the country , adverse to the extension of slavery . If all our new territory be doomed to slavery , where can the non - slaveholders of the slaveholding states emigrate to ? Are they not to be considered ? Has ...
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... interest in the form of wages . This inquiry was not confined to manufactures , but was ex- tended to other departments of business , where the results of labor could be made the subject of exact measurement . This is universally so ...
... interest in the form of wages . This inquiry was not confined to manufactures , but was ex- tended to other departments of business , where the results of labor could be made the subject of exact measurement . This is universally so ...
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... interests of Slaveholders . BY A SLAVEHOLDER OF WEST VIRGINIA . Lexington : R. C. Noel . 1847. " This Address was written by the Rev. Henry Ruffner , D. D. , president of Lexington College , Lexington , Va . Some of the passages of this ...
... interests of Slaveholders . BY A SLAVEHOLDER OF WEST VIRGINIA . Lexington : R. C. Noel . 1847. " This Address was written by the Rev. Henry Ruffner , D. D. , president of Lexington College , Lexington , Va . Some of the passages of this ...
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Seite 57 - 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.
Seite 393 - And they were the more fierce, saying, He stirreth up the people, teaching, throughout all Jewry, beginning from Galilee to this place.
Seite 57 - 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.
Seite 263 - Third, new States of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the Federal Constitution.
Seite 157 - That, in addition to the provisions of the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States...
Seite 492 - ... mentioned, shall be conclusive of the right of the person or persons in whose favor granted, to remove such fugitive to the State or Territory from which he escaped, and shall prevent all molestation of such person or persons by any process issued by any court, judge, magistrate, or other person whomsoever.
Seite 197 - We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, .... do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Seite 115 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to Liberty, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till Nature herself shall change. No tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle...
Seite 263 - 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.
Seite 290 - That in controversies respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the ancient trial by jury is preferable to any other, and ought to be held sacred.