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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... compromises . Every one should be left free to make these concessions , and not subject himself to unfavorable public criticism by doing so . If our deliberations are to attain the successful conclusion we so much desire , it certainly ...
... compromises . Every one should be left free to make these concessions , and not subject himself to unfavorable public criticism by doing so . If our deliberations are to attain the successful conclusion we so much desire , it certainly ...
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... compromises without which no Constitution would have been adopted . It was a guarantee to the States in which such ... compromise and mutual and liberal concessions which dictated the section of the Constitution in question , and which ...
... compromises without which no Constitution would have been adopted . It was a guarantee to the States in which such ... compromise and mutual and liberal concessions which dictated the section of the Constitution in question , and which ...
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... Compromise , believed that Kansas would be a slave State . It did not turn out so . All we ask is , that you should leave the territory south of the line where it has been left by the decision 90 MR . JOHNSON'S SPEECH ,
... Compromise , believed that Kansas would be a slave State . It did not turn out so . All we ask is , that you should leave the territory south of the line where it has been left by the decision 90 MR . JOHNSON'S SPEECH ,
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... Compromise that it should apply to future as well as to ex- isting territory . Does not the gentleman assert that under the laws as they now stand , we have the right to go north of the compromise line with our slaves ? What , then , is ...
... Compromise that it should apply to future as well as to ex- isting territory . Does not the gentleman assert that under the laws as they now stand , we have the right to go north of the compromise line with our slaves ? What , then , is ...
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... compromise . The commonwealth of Virginia called this Conference in high patriotism . I have an earnest faith in her sincerity and her purity in doing so . She hoped to meet her sisters animated by the same patriotism - that they would ...
... compromise . The commonwealth of Virginia called this Conference in high patriotism . I have an earnest faith in her sincerity and her purity in doing so . She hoped to meet her sisters animated by the same patriotism - that they would ...
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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.