A Sketch of the History of the United States from Independence to SecessionMacmillan and Company, 1862 - 404 pages |
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... slave - owner's fallacy , which Benton has himself exposed , that because human flesh is held as property in one state , therefore it must be such in another , where it is expressly prohibited so to be held . But Mr. Spence's self ...
... slave - owner's fallacy , which Benton has himself exposed , that because human flesh is held as property in one state , therefore it must be such in another , where it is expressly prohibited so to be held . But Mr. Spence's self ...
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... Slave States , " such as Virginia and Maryland . Now , these were precisely the ones of the South into which , on the whole , the healthiest emigration had been poured , as well as the most aristocratic . We need not therefore be ...
... Slave States , " such as Virginia and Maryland . Now , these were precisely the ones of the South into which , on the whole , the healthiest emigration had been poured , as well as the most aristocratic . We need not therefore be ...
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... state rights , no thinking man can doubt that it was conclu- sive as to the question of slavery . " We hold , " it says , " these truths to be self - evident ; -that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator ...
... state rights , no thinking man can doubt that it was conclu- sive as to the question of slavery . " We hold , " it says , " these truths to be self - evident ; -that all men are created equal ; that they are endowed by their Creator ...
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... slaves . As respects the slave - trade , already on the 6th April , 1776 , it had been resolved by Congress " That no slaves be imported into the thirteen colonies . " You will see at once that even under these Articles of Confederation ...
... slaves . As respects the slave - trade , already on the 6th April , 1776 , it had been resolved by Congress " That no slaves be imported into the thirteen colonies . " You will see at once that even under these Articles of Confederation ...
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... states , or by con- ventions of the people in three - fourths of them , obtain force of law ( with certain limitations as to the power of amendment , respecting the slave - trade , and direct taxa- tion , prior to 1808 ) . But no state ...
... states , or by con- ventions of the people in three - fourths of them , obtain force of law ( with certain limitations as to the power of amendment , respecting the slave - trade , and direct taxa- tion , prior to 1808 ) . But no state ...
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Page 63 - ... the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 28 - To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies ; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.
Page 70 - ... of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people...
Page 85 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Page 140 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Page 27 - States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Page 120 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Page 22 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...
Page 13 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 139 - But each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation...