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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... Union . Though at an advanced age and nearly blind , he was filled with an earnest desire to add his efforts to that ... Union would be preserved . He desired me to say , if the Union were preserved , he would die content . He called me ...
... Union . Though at an advanced age and nearly blind , he was filled with an earnest desire to add his efforts to that ... Union would be preserved . He desired me to say , if the Union were preserved , he would die content . He called me ...
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... Union . Mr. PRESIDENT , Judge WRIGHT was my friend . His approval cheered and encouraged my own humble labors in the service of the State . Pardon me if I mingle private with public grief . He has gone from his last great labor . He was ...
... Union . Mr. PRESIDENT , Judge WRIGHT was my friend . His approval cheered and encouraged my own humble labors in the service of the State . Pardon me if I mingle private with public grief . He has gone from his last great labor . He was ...
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... Union , one which if adopted will , we believe , accomplish the purpose so much de- sired by every patriotic citizen . We think it will give peace to the country . In their behalf I have now the honor to submit , for the consideration ...
... Union , one which if adopted will , we believe , accomplish the purpose so much de- sired by every patriotic citizen . We think it will give peace to the country . In their behalf I have now the honor to submit , for the consideration ...
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... Union , to the slaveholding States , and the restoration of integrity to the Union and harmony and peace to the coun- try , a guarantee of actual power in the Constitution and in the working of the Government to the slaveholding and ...
... Union , to the slaveholding States , and the restoration of integrity to the Union and harmony and peace to the coun- try , a guarantee of actual power in the Constitution and in the working of the Government to the slaveholding and ...
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... Union , to be , when ratified by Conventions of three - fourths of the States , valid and operative as amend- ments of the Constitution of the Union . ARTICLE 1. In all the territory of the United States , now held or here- after ...
... Union , to be , when ratified by Conventions of three - fourths of the States , valid and operative as amend- ments of the Constitution of the Union . ARTICLE 1. In all the territory of the United States , now held or here- after ...
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Page 229 - 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 65 - 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 and external enemies will be most constantly and actively (though often covertly and insidiously) directed...
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 225 - 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, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
Page 66 - No alliances, however strict, between the parts can be an adequate substitute ; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions, which all alliances in all times have experienced.
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...
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 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.
Page 346 - 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 508 - The state of slavery is of such a nature, that it is incapable of being introduced on any reasons, moral or political, but only by positive law, which preserves its force long after the reasons, occasion, and time itself from whence it was created, is erased from memory. It is so odious, that nothing can be suffered to support it, but positive law.