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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... understand whether we all construe the rule referring to the secrecy of our transac- tions alike . I am told that different constructions are placed upon it by different members , and would suggest the propriety of the PRESIDENT's ...
... understand whether we all construe the rule referring to the secrecy of our transac- tions alike . I am told that different constructions are placed upon it by different members , and would suggest the propriety of the PRESIDENT's ...
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... understand the first question will be upon the substitution of the minority report presented by the gentleman from ... understands that the gentle- man from Massachusetts has correctly pointed out the manner of proceeding . On motion of ...
... understand the first question will be upon the substitution of the minority report presented by the gentleman from ... understands that the gentle- man from Massachusetts has correctly pointed out the manner of proceeding . On motion of ...
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... understand that it should be amended only in the manner provided by the Con- stitution itself . They did not intend that amendments should be proposed under , or the existence of the Constitution endan- gered by any extraneous pressure ...
... understand that it should be amended only in the manner provided by the Con- stitution itself . They did not intend that amendments should be proposed under , or the existence of the Constitution endan- gered by any extraneous pressure ...
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... understand . But they are objections which have determined , and will de- termine , the action of Congress . I would ask Mr. GUTHRIE if the adoption of his propositions , previous to their action , would have prevented the States which ...
... understand . But they are objections which have determined , and will de- termine , the action of Congress . I would ask Mr. GUTHRIE if the adoption of his propositions , previous to their action , would have prevented the States which ...
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... understand my friend to claim that the ordinance of 1789 involves a proposition to divide the territory ? Mr. CURTIS - I understand that in connection with the subsequent legislation it does . Mr. GOODRICH : -The concession of territory ...
... understand my friend to claim that the ordinance of 1789 involves a proposition to divide the territory ? Mr. CURTIS - I understand that in connection with the subsequent legislation it does . Mr. GOODRICH : -The concession of territory ...
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Page 66 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all...
Page 65 - 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 the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation, and to recommend to your frequent review, some sentiments, which are the result of much reflection, of no inconsiderable observation, and which appear to me all-important to the permanency of your felicity as a people.
Page 59 - ... 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 several states.
Page 66 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of Governments as of other human institutions...
Page 547 - That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 171 - 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 348 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 227 - 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 171 - Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee...
Page 491 - That as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that " no person should be deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law...