The Works of William H. Seward, Volum 1Redfield, 1884 |
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Side 18
... question , Mr. Seward maintained that New Mexico should be admitted into the Union as a free state , or left to enjoy the protection from slavery afforded by existing Mexican laws . The fugitive slave law , which was proposed as a ...
... question , Mr. Seward maintained that New Mexico should be admitted into the Union as a free state , or left to enjoy the protection from slavery afforded by existing Mexican laws . The fugitive slave law , which was proposed as a ...
Side 20
... question . The whig party were widely divided on the question of acquiescence in the compromise measures , and still more at variance in regard to the claims of rival candidates for the presidency . Mr. Seward's friends in the free ...
... question . The whig party were widely divided on the question of acquiescence in the compromise measures , and still more at variance in regard to the claims of rival candidates for the presidency . Mr. Seward's friends in the free ...
Side 25
... question of slavery to be decided by the inhabitants thereof on the adoption of their constitution . This provision was , as explained by the bill itself , the application of the compromise policy of 1850 to Nebraska , and , as was ...
... question of slavery to be decided by the inhabitants thereof on the adoption of their constitution . This provision was , as explained by the bill itself , the application of the compromise policy of 1850 to Nebraska , and , as was ...
Side 27
... question . But the measure of success and effect which shall crown our exertions must depend now , as heretofore , on the fidelity with which the people whom we represent shall adhere to the policy and principles which are the ...
... question . But the measure of success and effect which shall crown our exertions must depend now , as heretofore , on the fidelity with which the people whom we represent shall adhere to the policy and principles which are the ...
Side 47
... question , although a large portion of his remarks were upon that subject . He expressed him- self in favor of the ... questions . He preferred to leave it to the people to substitute for this majority a better majority . ' Scarcely had ...
... question , although a large portion of his remarks were upon that subject . He expressed him- self in favor of the ... questions . He preferred to leave it to the people to substitute for this majority a better majority . ' Scarcely had ...
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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;