The Sectional Controversy: Or, Passages in the Political History of the United StatesC. Scribner, 1863 - 269 sidor |
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... Madison and others on State rights and military coercion , · • 46-52 Remarks , • 52 CHAPTER V. Mr. Jefferson's Administration , Mr. Jefferson elected by the States voting in Congress assembled , Sectional spirit of the times ...
... Madison and others on State rights and military coercion , · • 46-52 Remarks , • 52 CHAPTER V. Mr. Jefferson's Administration , Mr. Jefferson elected by the States voting in Congress assembled , Sectional spirit of the times ...
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... Madison on secession , Declaration of the Convention of South Carolina of the causes of secession , 217 224 The peace Congress , Mr. Crittenden's resolutions , Letters of Senators Bingham and Chandler , . Remarks , 229 229 · 230 232-268 ...
... Madison on secession , Declaration of the Convention of South Carolina of the causes of secession , 217 224 The peace Congress , Mr. Crittenden's resolutions , Letters of Senators Bingham and Chandler , . Remarks , 229 229 · 230 232-268 ...
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... MADISON and Mr. HAMILTON disapproved of those partial conventions , not as absolute violations of the Confederacy , but , as ultimately tending to them , and as , in the mean time , excit- ing pernicious jealousies ; the latter ...
... MADISON and Mr. HAMILTON disapproved of those partial conventions , not as absolute violations of the Confederacy , but , as ultimately tending to them , and as , in the mean time , excit- ing pernicious jealousies ; the latter ...
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... Madison , especially , was anxious to prevent a failure , and was disposed to conciliate both sections . He and others , probably , desired to believe that the abolition of slavery would take place in all the States , and he was willing ...
... Madison , especially , was anxious to prevent a failure , and was disposed to conciliate both sections . He and others , probably , desired to believe that the abolition of slavery would take place in all the States , and he was willing ...
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... Madison was unwilling to use the term slaves in the Constitution , or even to suggest the idea that they were property ; though he spoke of them as property in debate and elsewhere , and owned them as property . He would have the idea ...
... Madison was unwilling to use the term slaves in the Constitution , or even to suggest the idea that they were property ; though he spoke of them as property in debate and elsewhere , and owned them as property . He would have the idea ...
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Sida 204 - I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Sida 246 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Sida 211 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Sida 45 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Sida 26 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Sida 60 - Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Sida 211 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.
Sida 223 - Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.
Sida 165 - I speak to-day for the preservation of the Union. "Hear me for my cause." I speak to-day, out of a solicitous and anxious heart, for the restoration to the country of that quiet and that harmony which make the blessings of this Union so rich, and so dear to us all.
Sida 39 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...