History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 to the Final Restoration of Home Rule at the South in 1877, Volume 2Macmillan, 1892 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abolitionists administration affairs African American anti-slavery April argument bill Broderick Buchanan campaign candidate canvass cause Charleston chief justice cited citizens committee Congress Congressional Globe Constitution contest convention court Covode Committee Cuba Curtis Davis decision declared delegates Democratic party doctrine Douglas Dred Scott election excitement favor free-State Frémont friends Fugitive governor Greeley Harper's Ferry Herndon House Ibid Illinois influence John Brown Judge July June Kansas-Nebraska Kansas-Nebraska act Know-nothings leader Lecompton legislature letter Lincoln Lincoln-Douglas Debates March Marcy Massachusetts ment Missouri Compromise negro nomination North Ohio opinion Pennsylvania Pike platform political popular sovereignty position President principle pro-slavery representative Republican party Sanborn Senate sentiment Sept Seward Slave Power slave-holders slave-trade slavery slavery question Soulé South Southern speech Spring's Kansas Sumner Taney territory Thurlow Weed tion Union United Virginia vote Washington Whigs wrote York Tribune
Passagens conhecidas
Página 328 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Página 73 - The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas corpus, and of the trial by jury; of a proportionate representation of the people in the legislature, and of judicial proceedings according to the course of the common law.
Página 438 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS...
Página 311 - It matters not what way the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to the abstract question whether slavery may or may not go into a Territory under the Constitution, the people have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it as they please, for the reason that slavery cannot exist a day or an hour anywhere unless it is supported by local police regulations.
Página 301 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery, will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Página 321 - That is the real issue. That is the issue that will continue in this country when these poor tongues of Judge Douglas and myself shall be silent. It is the eternal struggle between these two principles — right and wrong — throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time; and will ever continue to struggle. The one is the common right of humanity and the other the divine right of kings.
Página 310 - In this and like communities, public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment nothing can fail ; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently he who moulds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. He makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to be executed.
Página 416 - All they ask, we could readily grant, if we thought slavery right; all we ask, they could as readily grant, if they thought it wrong. Their thinking it right, and our thinking it wrong, is the precise fact upon which depends the whole controversy.
Página 396 - John Brown's effort was peculiar. It was not a slave insurrection. It was an attempt by white men to get up a revolt among slaves, in which the slaves refused to participate. In fact, it was so absurd that the slaves, with all their ignorance, saw plainly enough it could not succeed.
Página 301 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.