The Political History of Slavery in the United StatesNeale, 1915 - Всего страниц: 342 |
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Стр. xii
... judgment that the law firm of Harris & George was as able as any that ever existed in any age or any country . My acquaintance with both of its members was intimate , my observation of their methods and struggles was almost constant ...
... judgment that the law firm of Harris & George was as able as any that ever existed in any age or any country . My acquaintance with both of its members was intimate , my observation of their methods and struggles was almost constant ...
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... judgment and with characteristic courage when convinced that he was right , Senator George threshed out the question before the people and won . The convention was held at the Capital in 1890 and he sat in it as a member from the State ...
... judgment and with characteristic courage when convinced that he was right , Senator George threshed out the question before the people and won . The convention was held at the Capital in 1890 and he sat in it as a member from the State ...
Стр. xix
... judgment on public measures to give a large consideration to the opinions of the people . " Another has said of him : " It was his pride that he sprang from the people and theirs that he rose so high . . . . They were grateful for his ...
... judgment on public measures to give a large consideration to the opinions of the people . " Another has said of him : " It was his pride that he sprang from the people and theirs that he rose so high . . . . They were grateful for his ...
Стр. xxiv
... judgment after the passions of the hour have sub- sided and the embers of controversy have ceased to glow ; and as such it will be accepted and pondered by the reader in a fair and dispassionate spirit . This is what the author obvi ...
... judgment after the passions of the hour have sub- sided and the embers of controversy have ceased to glow ; and as such it will be accepted and pondered by the reader in a fair and dispassionate spirit . This is what the author obvi ...
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... judgment , and embraced the three points of controversy : five slaves as three freemen in representation and taxation , the delivery of fugitives from slavery , and what has been stated about the African slave trade . Very early after ...
... judgment , and embraced the three points of controversy : five slaves as three freemen in representation and taxation , the delivery of fugitives from slavery , and what has been stated about the African slave trade . Very early after ...
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Стр. 318 - That all persons within the jurisdiction of the United States shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the accommodations, advantages, facilities, and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters, and other places of public amusement; subject only to the conditions and limitations established by law, and applicable alike to citizens of every race and color, regardless of any previous condition of servitude.
Стр. 97 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...
Стр. 97 - Resolved, That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Стр. 269 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States...
Стр. 104 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired;...
Стр. 73 - Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Стр. 314 - If two or more persons in any state or territory conspire, or go in disguise on the highway or on the premises of another, for the purpose of depriving, either directly or indirectly, any person or class of persons of the equal protection Opinion of the Court. of the laws, or of equal privileges and immunities under the laws...
Стр. 269 - I will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same: that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God...
Стр. 22 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Стр. 106 - I do not speak of emancipation at once, but of a decision at once to emancipate gradually. Room in South America for colonization can be obtained cheaply and in abundance, and when numbers shall be large enough to be company and encouragement for one another, the freed people will not be so reluctant to go.