Annual Report and Proceedings, Volumes 14-18Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 1846 |
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... North submits , with scarce an audible remonstrance . Af- The following is a succinct account of the transaction . ter the last Presidential contest was decided in favor of Mr. POLK , whose name was understood , during the canvass 4.
... North submits , with scarce an audible remonstrance . Af- The following is a succinct account of the transaction . ter the last Presidential contest was decided in favor of Mr. POLK , whose name was understood , during the canvass 4.
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... North , it would be successful . We had watched too long , and knew too well , the wily and desperate nature of the Slave interest , to be de- ceived by any apparent relaxation of its wishes , or its efforts , to accomplish a measure ...
... North , it would be successful . We had watched too long , and knew too well , the wily and desperate nature of the Slave interest , to be de- ceived by any apparent relaxation of its wishes , or its efforts , to accomplish a measure ...
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... North , the dear- est rights of the free States , to the tender mercies of a Slave- holding oligarchy ! " That this is literally true , is obvious from the fact that this act gives to the Slave - power a clear majority of four votes in ...
... North , the dear- est rights of the free States , to the tender mercies of a Slave- holding oligarchy ! " That this is literally true , is obvious from the fact that this act gives to the Slave - power a clear majority of four votes in ...
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... North may perhaps learn that " Va Victis " - wo to the vanquished — is the just and necessary watchword of such a victory . Already the great West , whose consent to the Annexation of Texas was purchased by the promise of the ...
... North may perhaps learn that " Va Victis " - wo to the vanquished — is the just and necessary watchword of such a victory . Already the great West , whose consent to the Annexation of Texas was purchased by the promise of the ...
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... North , they have no reason to anticipate any serious op- position , on this Continent , to their schemes of conquest . But it is to be hoped that the humanity of Christendom , and the Civilization of the Age , will interfere between ...
... North , they have no reason to anticipate any serious op- position , on this Continent , to their schemes of conquest . But it is to be hoped that the humanity of Christendom , and the Civilization of the Age , will interfere between ...
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Page 5 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty...
Page 14 - Nevertheless congress adopted his views without delay, and on the 13th declared that by an act of the republic of Mexico, a state of war existed between the two governments; it authorized the president to call for volunteers to any number, not exceeding 50,000, to serve for twelve months after arrival at the place of rendezvous, and placed at his disposal $10,000,000. The president immediately intimated to General Scott, the commander-in-chief...
Page 26 - The right of property is before and higher than any Constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
Page 14 - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
Page 60 - Address from the People of Ireland to Their Countrymen and Countrywomen in America.
Page 15 - We hesitate not to say that Annexation, effected by any act or proceeding of the Federal Government, or any of its departments, would be identical with, dissolution. It would be a .violation of our National compact, its objects, designs, and the great elementary principles which entered into its formation, of a character so deep and fundamental, and would be an attempt to eternize an institution and a power...
Page 68 - If, however, any one should offer himself as a missionary, having slaves, and should insist on retaining them as his property, we could not appoint him. One thing is certain, we can never be a party to any arrangement which would imply approbation of slavery'.
Page 15 - ... nature so unjust in themselves, so injurious to the interests and abhorrent to the feelings of the people of the free States, as, in our opinion, not only inevitably to result in a dissolution of the Union, but fully to justify it...
Page 65 - ... Separation aforesaid, and based upon the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, comprehending the doctrines, and entire moral, ecclesiastical, and economical rules and regulations of said Discipline, except only in so far as verbal alterations may be necessary to a distinct organization, and to be known by the style and title of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
Page 15 - We hold that there is not only ' no political necessity' for it, ' no advantages to be derived from it,' but that there is no constitutional power delegated to any department of the National Government to authorize it ; that no act of Congress, or treaty for annexation, can impose the least obligation upon the several States of this Union to submit to such an unwarrantable act, or to receive into their family and fraternity such misbegotten and illegitimate progeny. "We hesitate not to say that Annexation,...