The Works of William H. Seward, Volum 1Redfield, 1884 |
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Side 43
... authority of congress , of a territorial legislature , of any individual or asso- ciation of individuals , to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States , while the present constitution shall be maintained ...
... authority of congress , of a territorial legislature , of any individual or asso- ciation of individuals , to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States , while the present constitution shall be maintained ...
Side 67
... authority , confided to me by three millions of a free , brave and enlightened people . I love it more than even the senate chamber of the great confederate Republic of which we are all citizens - although in that senate chamber I am ...
... authority , confided to me by three millions of a free , brave and enlightened people . I love it more than even the senate chamber of the great confederate Republic of which we are all citizens - although in that senate chamber I am ...
Side 68
... authority and power , to investigate the whole transaction . After a protracted examination of numerous witnesses , the committee , con sisting of Senators Mason , Fitch , Jefferson Davis , Doolittle and Collamer , made a report ...
... authority and power , to investigate the whole transaction . After a protracted examination of numerous witnesses , the committee , con sisting of Senators Mason , Fitch , Jefferson Davis , Doolittle and Collamer , made a report ...
Side 77
... authority of congress , of a territorial legislature , or of any individuals , to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States . On the third day of the session the convention proceeded to ballot for candidates ...
... authority of congress , of a territorial legislature , or of any individuals , to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States . On the third day of the session the convention proceeded to ballot for candidates ...
Side 88
... authority without . The Douglas creed assumes that slavery and freedom are equally just and wise , or , at least , that there is no public interest and no moral right involved in the contest between them . Slavery will never be shut out ...
... authority without . The Douglas creed assumes that slavery and freedom are equally just and wise , or , at least , that there is no public interest and no moral right involved in the contest between them . Slavery will never be shut out ...
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Side 443 - act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is hereby forever prohibited : Provided, always, that any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed, in any state or territory of the United States, such fugitive may be
Side 255 - kept steadily in view was the consolidation of the Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected.
Side 679 - party, and that the causes which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now more than ever before demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph. SECOND. That the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the declaration of independence and embodied in the federal constitution, " That all men are created equal; that
Side 127 - the authority of British law, as he found it written down by Blackstone: " The law of nature being coeval with God himself is of course superior to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all time. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all
Side 679 - power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force of the soil of any state or territory, no matter under what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes.
Side 680 - provision of the constitution against all attempts to violate it ; and we deny the authority of congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Side 680 - without due process of law." it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the constitution against all attempts to violate it ; and we deny the authority of congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Side 680 - SIXTEENTH. That a railroad to the Pacific ocean is imperatively demanded by the interests of the whole country; that the federal government ought to render immediate and efficient aid in its construction ; and that, as preliminary thereto, a daily overland mail should be promptly established.
Side 679 - FIRST. That the history of the nation during the last four years has fully established the propriety and necessity of the organization and perpetuation of the republican party, and that the causes which called it into existence are permanent in their nature, and now more than ever before demand its peaceful and constitutional triumph.
Side 444 - the meaning of the constitution in respect to the legal points in dispute." This report gives us the deliberate judgment of the committee on two important points. First, that the compromise of 1850 did not, by its letter or by its spirit, repeal or render necessary, or even propose the abrogation of the Missouri compromise;