 | Peter Force - 1836 - 452 pages
...constitution, is especially borrnd to avoid in its own action, any thing that niny disturb them, t would, therefore, call the special attention of Congress...incendiary publications intended to instigate the «laves to insurrection. I felt it to be my duty, in the first message which I communicated to Congress,... | |
 | 1836 - 724 pages
...publications through the mail. He says, " I would therefore call the special attention of CongTess to the subject, and respectfully suggest the propriety...intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection." A bill, making it penal for any post-master to receive or forward, into any state, any publication... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836 - 680 pages
...February 4, 1836. The message recommends that Congress should pass a law to punish the transmission, through the mail, of incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection. It of course assumes for Congress a right to determine what papers are incendiary and intended to excite... | |
 | William Jay - 1839 - 232 pages
...have engaged in these unconstitutional and wicked attempts.' And you proceed to suggest to Congress, ' the propriety of passing such a law as will prohibit,...the circulation in the southern States, through the mails, of incendiary publications, intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection.' "A servile insurrection,... | |
 | United States. President - 1842 - 794 pages
...by the constituiion, is especially bound to avoid in its own action, anything that may disturb them. I would, therefore, call the special attention of...intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection. he minds of those who are really friendly to the republican features of our system, that one of its... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - 1843 - 642 pages
...message, as has been stated, recommends that Congress should pass a. law to punish the transmission through the mail of incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection. It of course assumes for Congress a right to determine what papers are incendiary and intended to excite... | |
 | United States. President - 1846 - 902 pages
...by the constitution, is especially bound to avoid in its own action, anything that may disturb them. I would, therefore, call the special attention of...intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection. • Considering the great extent of our confederacy, the rapid increase of its population, and the... | |
 | United States. President - 1846 - 968 pages
...by the constitution, is especially bound to avoid in its own action, anything that may disturb them. I would, therefore, call the special attention of...intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection. Considering the great extent of our confederacy, the rapid increase of its population, and the diversity... | |
 | William Goodell - 1852 - 632 pages
...1835, accusing abolitionists of " unconstitutional and wicked attempts," and recommending as follows: " I would therefore call the special attention of Congress...intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection." The winter of 1835-6 was a dark day for the prospects of northern freedom. Except by the intended victims... | |
 | William Goodell - 1853 - 628 pages
...1835, accusing abolitionists of "unconstitutional and wicked attempts," and recommending as follows: " I would therefore call the special attention of Congress...intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection." The winter of 1835-6 was a dark day for the prospects of northern freedom. Except by the intended victims... | |
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I would therefore call the special attention of Congress to the subject, and respectfully suggest the propriety of passing such a law as will prohibit, under severe penalties, the circulation in the Southern States, through the mail, of incendiary publications,... 
