...acceptance, and as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read: — of the States, and especially the right of each State...which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depend ; and we denounce the lawless invasion, by an armed force, of any State or territory,...

...resolutions adopted by the Convention which ushered the present administration into power : — " Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends." It is expressed also,...

...afford security. The Ciiicago manifesto of the Northern party, now supreme, adopts as its fourth article the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the states,...to order and control its own domestic institutions, while the small party of thorough-going abolitionists, •without political importance, though now...

...as a law to themselves and to me, the clear and emphatic resolution which I now read : " ' Resolved, That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the...of each State to order and control its own domestic institious according to its own judgment ex112 113 clusively, is essential to that balance of power...

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...of directly opposite character, in thesa words : " That the maintenance inviolate of the rights •/ the States, and especially the right of each State...and control its own domestic institutions according toils own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of powers on which the perfection and...

...the last Presidential election, declared its doctrine on this point in tho following words : — ' That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each to order and control its domestic institutions, according to its own jndgment exclusively, is essential...

...inclination to interfere with slavery where it existed, and that he would maintain inviolate the rights of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment. But this had no effect in staying the progress of secession. In April Fort Sumter was bombarded, and...

...domestic instiVOL. II.— Doc. 19 tut ion» according to its окп judgment exclusively, it ettential to that balance of power» on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends ; and we denounce all lawks» invasion by armed force of the »oil of any Slate or Territory,...

...platform in the last contest was adopted at Chicago in 1860, and the foirrth article was as follows : — 'The maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of taeli State to order and control its own domestic institutions, according to its own judgment, exclusively,...