1819-1880J. B. Piet, 1879 |
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... Constitutional Reform - The Slavery Question - The Constitution of 1851 - Changes in the New Constitution - The Presidential race of 1852 - The Know - Nothing Party - Secret Political Socie- ties Investigated - Oaths of the Know ...
... Constitutional Reform - The Slavery Question - The Constitution of 1851 - Changes in the New Constitution - The Presidential race of 1852 - The Know - Nothing Party - Secret Political Socie- ties Investigated - Oaths of the Know ...
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John Thomas Scharf. CONTENTS . and Slavery in the Constitution - The Three - fifths Basis of Representation - Compromise in the Constitution of 1787 , on the subject of Slavery - Preferential Distinctions in Commerce - An Extensive Sale ...
John Thomas Scharf. CONTENTS . and Slavery in the Constitution - The Three - fifths Basis of Representation - Compromise in the Constitution of 1787 , on the subject of Slavery - Preferential Distinctions in Commerce - An Extensive Sale ...
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... CONSTITUTION OF 1864 . - 526-574 Calling a State Convention Proposed - Iron - clad Oaths - Traitors have no Political Rights- General Wallace in Command - The Rights of Voters Interfered with - Inquisitorial Political Ques- tions to ...
... CONSTITUTION OF 1864 . - 526-574 Calling a State Convention Proposed - Iron - clad Oaths - Traitors have no Political Rights- General Wallace in Command - The Rights of Voters Interfered with - Inquisitorial Political Ques- tions to ...
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... Constitution was formed . To protect each State against inva- sion is made the imperative duty of the national government ; and for that purpose every necessary power is delegated to the national authorities . The means of defence ...
... Constitution was formed . To protect each State against inva- sion is made the imperative duty of the national government ; and for that purpose every necessary power is delegated to the national authorities . The means of defence ...
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... Constitution , and would require from the State thus injured , an unequivocal remon- strance against such an abandonment of constitutional duty . " After reviewing the correspondence between the governor and the federal executive , and ...
... Constitution , and would require from the State thus injured , an unequivocal remon- strance against such an abandonment of constitutional duty . " After reviewing the correspondence between the governor and the federal executive , and ...
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Página 556 - ... 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 and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Página 461 - States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution. and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired: and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Página 334 - 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...
Página 557 - States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such...
Página 244 - 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 557 - St. Martin, and Orleans, including the City of New Orleans. Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia, except the fortyeight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess...
Página 463 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Página 329 - Constitution; that all efforts of the abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences ; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.
Página 556 - That the Executive will, on the first day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof respectively shall then be in rebellion against the United States, and the fact that any State, or the people thereof, shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of...
Página 247 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You...