The Works of William H. Seward, Volum 1Redfield, 1884 |
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Side 37
... hold slaves in the territory ; requiring all voters , officers and attorneys to take an oath to support 1 These cases seem to warrant sufficiently Mr. Seward's apprehension that the result of the slavery aggressions unchecked , will be ...
... hold slaves in the territory ; requiring all voters , officers and attorneys to take an oath to support 1 These cases seem to warrant sufficiently Mr. Seward's apprehension that the result of the slavery aggressions unchecked , will be ...
Side 42
... hold it to be a self - evident truth , that all men are endowed with the inalienable rights to life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , and that the primary object and ulterior designs of our federal government were , to secure ...
... hold it to be a self - evident truth , that all men are endowed with the inalienable rights to life , liberty , and the pursuit of happiness , and that the primary object and ulterior designs of our federal government were , to secure ...
Side 46
... hold on San Francisco . ( Signed ) proprietor , we are ena- St. Paul to the east , as M. S. WILKINSON , AARON GOODRICH , You have grappled New WILLIAM H. SEWARD . tory to establish a government for themselves , passed the 46 MEMOIR .
... hold on San Francisco . ( Signed ) proprietor , we are ena- St. Paul to the east , as M. S. WILKINSON , AARON GOODRICH , You have grappled New WILLIAM H. SEWARD . tory to establish a government for themselves , passed the 46 MEMOIR .
Side 73
... hold it has upon the affections of the people , the solid basis upon which its pillars rest , and the cer- tainty that it will survive the rudest shocks of fanaticism and faction . " 1 The spring elections of 1860 , throughout the north ...
... hold it has upon the affections of the people , the solid basis upon which its pillars rest , and the cer- tainty that it will survive the rudest shocks of fanaticism and faction . " 1 The spring elections of 1860 , throughout the north ...
Side 103
... hold to be the wisest , the worthiest , and the best , is the people of this little state . The reason of it is expressed in the old proverb , ' handsome is that handsome does . ' . If other nations have higher education and greater ...
... hold to be the wisest , the worthiest , and the best , is the people of this little state . The reason of it is expressed in the old proverb , ' handsome is that handsome does . ' . If other nations have higher education and greater ...
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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;