The Republican Party and Its Presidential Candidates: With Sketches of Fremont and DaytonMiller, Orton & Mulligan, 1856 - 512 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 76
Página vii
... Clay also Candidates- All Republicans - No Choice of President by the Colleges- Calhoun Elected Vice President - Friends of Clay prefer Mr. Adams , and Representatives in Congress Elect him - His Acceptance - Inaugural - Cabinet and ...
... Clay also Candidates- All Republicans - No Choice of President by the Colleges- Calhoun Elected Vice President - Friends of Clay prefer Mr. Adams , and Representatives in Congress Elect him - His Acceptance - Inaugural - Cabinet and ...
Página viii
... Clay - Fidelity to the Constitution - Seward the Representative Man in New York - His Nomination in 1834 for Governor - Nomination of Harrison and Granger in 1886 ; also , Judge White , of Tennessee - The Albany Resolutions- Result of ...
... Clay - Fidelity to the Constitution - Seward the Representative Man in New York - His Nomination in 1834 for Governor - Nomination of Harrison and Granger in 1886 ; also , Judge White , of Tennessee - The Albany Resolutions- Result of ...
Página ix
... Clay and Frelinghuysen by the Whigs -The Whig Platform - The Canvass - Clay Defeated by his Letters to Alabama - His . Acknowledgments to William H. Seward - Polk and Dallas Elected - Polk Removes to Wash- ington - Acquiesces in the ...
... Clay and Frelinghuysen by the Whigs -The Whig Platform - The Canvass - Clay Defeated by his Letters to Alabama - His . Acknowledgments to William H. Seward - Polk and Dallas Elected - Polk Removes to Wash- ington - Acquiesces in the ...
Página 70
... Clay and Jona- than Russell to join the persons before appointed , at Got- tenburgh or London , and there to endeavor to negotiate a peace with Gambier , Golbourn , and Adams , commission- ers on the part of Great Britain . Mr. Todd ...
... Clay and Jona- than Russell to join the persons before appointed , at Got- tenburgh or London , and there to endeavor to negotiate a peace with Gambier , Golbourn , and Adams , commission- ers on the part of Great Britain . Mr. Todd ...
Página 84
... Clay also supported the meas- ure , whilst Webster and Randolph were against it . The positions of Calhoun and Webster were afterwards exchanged . Many other Republican measures , not within the com- pass allowed for this sketch , yet ...
... Clay also supported the meas- ure , whilst Webster and Randolph were against it . The positions of Calhoun and Webster were afterwards exchanged . Many other Republican measures , not within the com- pass allowed for this sketch , yet ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
Adams administration admission adopted amendment annexation of Texas authority ballot bill Buren cabinet Calhoun candidate caucus citizens Clay Colonel Benton Colonel Fremont committee compromise congress constitution convention debate declared defeated delegates Democratic party despotism doctrine duty election eral ernment executive existed favor federal government Federalists foreign freedom Fremont friends Georgia Governor Hartford convention honor house of representatives hundred interests Jackson Jefferson John John Quincy Adams legislature liberty Martin Van Buren Massachusetts measures ment Messrs Mexico Missouri Missouri compromise Monroe nomination non-slaveholding nullifier opinion opposed passed peace Pennsylvania persons political Polk principles prohibited purpose question received republic Republican resolutions Resolved respect right of petition secretary senate Silas Wright slave power slaveholding slavery South Carolina southern speech tariff territory tion treasury treaty Tyler Union United vice president Virginia Washington Webster Whig party whilst Wilmot proviso York
Pasajes populares
Página 115 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent, without endangering our peace and happiness...
Página 33 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Página 228 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Página 33 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Página 415 - That Congress has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution...
Página 421 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise 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...
Página 99 - 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.
Página 34 - Still one thing more, fellowcitizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 197 - ... 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, and...
Página 33 - Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth.