Birth of the Republican Party ; Rise of slavery and early political history preceding the Missouri CompromiseG. P. Putnam's Sons, 1904 |
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... such history with the earnest desire to profit thereby , in order to do better service in the time that now is . Theodore WHITE HOUSE , January 1 , 1904 . Roosevelt INTRODUCTION . BY WILLIAM P. FRYE OF MAINE , PRESIDENT.
... such history with the earnest desire to profit thereby , in order to do better service in the time that now is . Theodore WHITE HOUSE , January 1 , 1904 . Roosevelt INTRODUCTION . BY WILLIAM P. FRYE OF MAINE , PRESIDENT.
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Francis Curtis. INTRODUCTION . BY J. G. CANNON OF ILLINOIS , SPEAKER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . ARTY government not only in a Republic like our own , but in a limited monarchy like Great Britain or Germany , PAR is so well established as ...
Francis Curtis. INTRODUCTION . BY J. G. CANNON OF ILLINOIS , SPEAKER HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES . ARTY government not only in a Republic like our own , but in a limited monarchy like Great Britain or Germany , PAR is so well established as ...
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... House of Rep- resentatives , our influence in government would be increased in proportion as we were less able to defend ourselves . " Show some period , " said the members from the Eastern States , " when it may be in our power to put ...
... House of Rep- resentatives , our influence in government would be increased in proportion as we were less able to defend ourselves . " Show some period , " said the members from the Eastern States , " when it may be in our power to put ...
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... Houses of Congress was looked upon as recompense for the twenty years ' clause . It was a concession the South might ... House of Representatives . This was the first compromise of the Constitution , and it gave the Slave Power a hold ...
... Houses of Congress was looked upon as recompense for the twenty years ' clause . It was a concession the South might ... House of Representatives . This was the first compromise of the Constitution , and it gave the Slave Power a hold ...
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... House , that Congress had no power to interfere , nor could the prohibition of the slave trade occur until 1808. This interpretation of the Constitution held good ever afterwards , though it was by no means in the form of legislation ...
... House , that Congress had no power to interfere , nor could the prohibition of the slave trade occur until 1808. This interpretation of the Constitution held good ever afterwards , though it was by no means in the form of legislation ...
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Sida 6 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Sida 53 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Sida 384 - I shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it." I am loth to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
Sida 6 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Sida 413 - Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days, from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Sida 9 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Sida 426 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder; and that I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress, or by decision of the Supreme Court...
Sida 275 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Sida 244 - Should this question be answered in the affirmative, then by every law, human and divine, we shall be justified in wresting it from Spain, if we possess the power. And this upon the very same principle that would justify an individual in tearing down the burning house of his neighbor, if there were no other means of preventing the flames from destroying his own home.
Sida 413 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free...