The Political Text-book, Or Encyclopedia: Containing Everything Necessary for the Reference of the Politicians and Statesmen of the United StatesMichael W. Cluskey C. Wendell, 1857 - 636 páginas |
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... slaves . It prohibits any state into which a slave may have fled , from passing any law to discharge him from slavery , and declares that he shall be delivered up by the authorities of such state to his master ; nay , more , it makes ...
... slaves . It prohibits any state into which a slave may have fled , from passing any law to discharge him from slavery , and declares that he shall be delivered up by the authorities of such state to his master ; nay , more , it makes ...
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... slave to be a chat- tel , when Mr. Wise called him to order for irrelevancy . The question being upon the ab - granting leave to the member from Vermont olition of slavery in the District , and the argu- ment upon the legality of slave ...
... slave to be a chat- tel , when Mr. Wise called him to order for irrelevancy . The question being upon the ab - granting leave to the member from Vermont olition of slavery in the District , and the argu- ment upon the legality of slave ...
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... slave power for more less settlers . slave states , new slave territories , and the nationalization of slavery , our distinct and final answer is no more slave states , no slave ter- ritory , no nationalized slavery , and no national ...
... slave power for more less settlers . slave states , new slave territories , and the nationalization of slavery , our distinct and final answer is no more slave states , no slave ter- ritory , no nationalized slavery , and no national ...
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... slave power , in the amount of conscience and humanity to be found in it , in its direct effort to baffle the designs of the slave oligarchy respecting the territories of the country , it is a far better party than either of the others ...
... slave power , in the amount of conscience and humanity to be found in it , in its direct effort to baffle the designs of the slave oligarchy respecting the territories of the country , it is a far better party than either of the others ...
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... slave chains on the limbs of his slaves . Their law ; third , abolish slavery in the District of fathers had undoubtedly believed that they Columbia ; fourth , abolish the inter - state slave- had made a government which would work ...
... slave chains on the limbs of his slaves . Their law ; third , abolish slavery in the District of fathers had undoubtedly believed that they Columbia ; fourth , abolish the inter - state slave- had made a government which would work ...
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admission admitted adopted alien amendment American party authority bill ceded Circuit Court citizens claims clause committee Congress Conn Constitution convention council declared delegates district Dred Scott duty election enacted entitled exercise exist federal foreign Fort Snelling fugitive gress House of Representatives inhabitants judgment jurisdiction justice Kansas land legislation legislature liberty Louisiana Mass ment Messrs Missouri compromise nay nay nay nay nay yea nay yea nay nay yea yea NAYS.-Messrs North Carolina Ohio opinion ordinance organization passed persons plaintiff plea political President principles prohibited question recognised regulations resolution respect rules Senate session slave slavery Smith South stitution Tenn territory territory of Kansas thereof tion treaty Union United Virginia vote Williamson R. W. Cobb Wilmot proviso yea nay nay yea nay yea yea yea nay yea yea yea YEAS.-Messrs
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Página 47 - ... the United States in Congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Página 47 - States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office; appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States...
Página 46 - If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Página 99 - The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. 2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Página 46 - Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven Members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the united states, for which he, or another for his benefit receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind. Each state shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the states, and while they act as members of the committee of the states.
Página 43 - ... 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, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 110 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 222 - 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 313 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 99 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.