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... slavery from Congressional halls to the plains of Kansas . National issues were referred to a local community for final settlement . Lawrence was the first Free - State town of any importance and it became the center of the Free - State ...
... slavery from Congressional halls to the plains of Kansas . National issues were referred to a local community for final settlement . Lawrence was the first Free - State town of any importance and it became the center of the Free - State ...
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... Such a develop- ment artfully conducts the human race back , sooner or later , to a species of slavery ; it hands over the many to the patronage of the powerful few ; and , unless checked , HISTORICAL INDUSTRIES - SCHOULER . 59.
... Such a develop- ment artfully conducts the human race back , sooner or later , to a species of slavery ; it hands over the many to the patronage of the powerful few ; and , unless checked , HISTORICAL INDUSTRIES - SCHOULER . 59.
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... slaves is as mild as language could make it . There is noth- ing mandatory about it . The escaping fugitive " may be ... slavery received only a shamefaced recog- nition on either side of the sectional line . Indeed , I might say 1819 ...
... slaves is as mild as language could make it . There is noth- ing mandatory about it . The escaping fugitive " may be ... slavery received only a shamefaced recog- nition on either side of the sectional line . Indeed , I might say 1819 ...
Page 94
... slavery , and show the sentiments of the people of Ohio and Virginia as regards that institution in the begin- ning ... slavery : The act of 1692 for the trial of slaves charged with a " cappi- tall " offense , which the law of England ...
... slavery , and show the sentiments of the people of Ohio and Virginia as regards that institution in the begin- ning ... slavery : The act of 1692 for the trial of slaves charged with a " cappi- tall " offense , which the law of England ...
Page 95
... slaves charged with treason or felony , which trial was required to take place within ten days after arrest . No slave could be condemned unless all of the justices sitting upon his trial should agree in opinion that the prisoner was ...
... slaves charged with treason or felony , which trial was required to take place within ten days after arrest . No slave could be condemned unless all of the justices sitting upon his trial should agree in opinion that the prisoner was ...
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Page 185 - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Page 172 - Men being, as has been said, by nature all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.
Page 301 - But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.
Page 224 - ... your collectors and comptrollers, and of all the slaves that adhered to them. Such would, and, in no long time, must be, the effect of attempting to forbid as a crime, and to suppress as an evil, the command and blessing of Providence,
Page 200 - American social development has been continually beginning over again on the frontier. This perennial rebirth, this fluidity of American life, this expansion westward with its new opportunities, its continuous touch with the simplicity of primitive society, furnish the forces dominating American character.
Page 137 - Gladstone, a not too friendly critic, has said that " as the British Constitution is the most subtle organism which has proceeded from progressive history, so the American Constitution is the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.
Page 235 - Resolved therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.
Page 227 - What the Mediterranean Sea was to the Greeks, breaking the bond of custom, offering new experiences, calling out new institutions and activities, that, and more, the ever retreating frontier has been to the United States directly, and to the nations of Europe more remotely.
Page 315 - The governor shall not lay any taxes or ympositions upon the colony, their lands or commodities, other way than by the authority of the general assembly, to be levyed and ymployed as the said assembly shall appoynt.
Page 382 - Whenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies the same, such island, rock, or key may, at the discretion of the President, be considered as appertaining to the United States.