A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention: For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861D. Appleton, 1864 - 626 pages |
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... common and at the same time a most important object - to agree if we can upon some plan for adjusting the unhappy differences which distract the country , which will be satisfactory to ourselves and those we rep- resent . We have ...
... common and at the same time a most important object - to agree if we can upon some plan for adjusting the unhappy differences which distract the country , which will be satisfactory to ourselves and those we rep- resent . We have ...
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... common country , I found him ready and willing , conscientiously and patriotically , to do that which I thought that portion of the country which I represent has a right to demand and expect of those who repre- sent a different portion ...
... common country , I found him ready and willing , conscientiously and patriotically , to do that which I thought that portion of the country which I represent has a right to demand and expect of those who repre- sent a different portion ...
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... common law ; and when any territory north or south of said line , within such boundary as Congress may prescribe , shall contain a population required for a member of Congress , according to the then federal ratio of representation , it ...
... common law ; and when any territory north or south of said line , within such boundary as Congress may prescribe , shall contain a population required for a member of Congress , according to the then federal ratio of representation , it ...
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... Common- wealth . " From this resolution , it is clear that the General Assembly , in its declared opinion of what would be acceptable to the people of Virginia , not only re- quired the Crittenden propositions as a basis , but also held ...
... Common- wealth . " From this resolution , it is clear that the General Assembly , in its declared opinion of what would be acceptable to the people of Virginia , not only re- quired the Crittenden propositions as a basis , but also held ...
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... common concerns . This Government , the offspring of our own choice , uninfluenced and unmoved , adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation , completely free in its principles , in the distribution of its powers , uniting ...
... common concerns . This Government , the offspring of our own choice , uninfluenced and unmoved , adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation , completely free in its principles , in the distribution of its powers , uniting ...
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Page 171 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 61 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them, at his or their request shall be furnished with a transcript of the said Journal, except such parts as are above excepted, to lay before the legislatures of the...
Page 67 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like...
Page 67 - It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad; of your safety; of your prosperity; of that very liberty which you so highly prize. But as it is easy to foresee, that from different causes and from different quarters, much pains will be taken, many artifices employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth, as this is the point in your political fortress, against which the batteries of internal...
Page 67 - Union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish 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 and indignantly...
Page 219 - 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.
Page 458 - That the 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...
Page 226 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever...
Page 530 - Congress shall provide by law for securing to the citizens of each State the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Page 217 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...