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Vanliga ord och fraserabolished Abraham Baldwin Abraham Lincoln adopted African slave-trade argument authority believe better commerce Compromises of 1850 Congress Constitution Convention decided declared Democratic deny doctrine Douglas's Dred Scott decision duty election equal established exclude slavery exist expressed fact favor Federal territories fisheries friends gentlemen give Hamlin HANNIBAL HAMLIN House Illinois improvements institution of slavery Judge Douglas Kansas Kentucky labor land legislation Legislature matter measure ment Mexico Missouri Compromise Nebraska bill negro never North Ohio opinion ordinance of 87 Oregon party passed patriotic political popular sovereignty present President principle prohibiting slavery proposition provision purpose question repeal Republican Republican party resolution sacred right Sangamon river Senate slave slave-trade slavery South Southern speech stitution Supreme Court Texas thing tion understand Union United vote Whig whole Wilmot Proviso wrong Populära avsnittSidan 347 - Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes in pain, And dies among his worshippers. Sidan 100 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively... Sidan 239 - Can the people of a United States Territory, in any lawful way, against the wish of any citizen of the United States, exclude slavery from its limits prior to the formation of a State constitution? Sidan 243 - ... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. Sidan 216 - I hold that, notwithstanding all this, there is no reason in the world why the negro is not entitled to all the natural rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence — the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I hold that he is as much entitled to these as the white man. Sidan 217 - I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. Sidan 181 - 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 enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. Sidan 202 - But you say you are conservative — eminently conservative — while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried? We stick to, contend for, the identical old policy on the point in controversy which was adopted by "our fathers who framed the government under which we live... Sidan 189 - It is this : Does the proper division of local from Federal authority, or anything in the Constitution, forbid our Federal Government to control as to slavery in our Federal Territories ? " Upon this, Senator Douglas holds the affirmative, and Republicans the negative. Sidan 194 - ... their oath to support the Constitution, would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition. Again, George Washington, another of the "thirty-nine... Referenser från webbsidorLives and speeches of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin Howells ... William Dean Howells: Biography and Much More from Answers.com William Dean Howells and the Bourgeois Quotidian: Affection ... |