American Orations: Studies in American Political History, Volume 3Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn Putnam's, 1896 |
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American Orations: Studies in American Political History, Volume 3 Alexander Johnston,James Albert Woodburn Visualização integral - 1899 |
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agitation amendment American anti-slavery argument asserted believe Benjamin charge Chase colonies committee compact compromise measures compromise of 1850 Congress Congressional Constitution Convention Crittenden Crittenden Compromise debate declared Democratic denounced doctrine Douglas Dred Scott decision election equal Everett exclude slavery Federal Government free-State friends Fugitive Slave Fugitive Slave Law gentlemen House institutions January Judge justice Kansas Kansas-Nebraska bill Kentucky labor Lecompton Lecompton Constitution legislation Legislature liberty Lincoln Lincoln-Douglas Debates March ment Mexico Missouri compromise Missouri prohibition Nebraska bill negro never North Northern opinion party passage peace political President principle prohibit slavery proposed proposition provision question recognized referred repeal Republican revolution secede secession Senator from Illinois sentiment Seward sion slave power slavery South Carolina Southern sovereignty speech stitution Sumner Supreme Court Territories tion Toombs Union United States Senator Utah vote Wade Whig
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Página 169 - 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 the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will...
Página 164 - This they said, and this they meant. They did not mean to assert the obvious untruth that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact, they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit.
Página 173 - ... Nebraska bill, on the mere question of fact, whether the Lecompton Constitution was or was not, in any just sense, made by the people of Kansas ; and in that quarrel...
Página 180 - ... quarrel with the present head of the dynasty, and that he has regularly voted with us on a single point, upon which he and we have never differed. They remind us that he is a great man, and that the largest of us are very small ones. Let this be granted. But "a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Página 169 - Have we no tendency to the latter condition? Let any one who doubts, carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination — piece of machinery, so to speak — compounded of the Nebraska doctrine and the Dred Scott decision. Let him consider not only what work the machinery is adapted to do, and how well adapted; but also let him study the history of its construction, and trace, if he can, or rather fail, if he can, to trace the evidences of design and concert of action among its chief...
Página 409 - That the new dogma, that the constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the territories of the United States...
Página 409 - Douglas's new sedition law must be enacted and enforced, suppressing all declarations that slavery is wrong, whether made in politics, in presses, in pulpits, or in private.
Página 178 - Why mention a State ? They were legislating for Territories, and not for or about States. Certainly the people of a State are and ought to be subject to the Constitution of the United States ; but why is mention of this lugged into this merely territorial law ? Why are the people of a Territory and the people of a State therein lumped together, and their relation to the Constitution therein treated as being precisely the same ? While the opinion of the Court by Chief Justice Taney, in the Dred Scott...
Página 22 - That the constitution and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within the said Territory of Kansas as elsewhere within the United States...
Página 28 - Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall hereafter be introduced into this state, otherwise than for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; nor shall any male person arrived at the age of twenty-one years, nor female person arrived at the age of eighteen years, be held to serve . any person as a servant, under any indenture hereafter made, unless...