Freedom and Public Faith: Speech of William H. Seward, on the Abrogation of the Missouri Compromise, in the Kansas and Nebraska Bills, Issue 28 |
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... Compro- mise of 1850 , which , in their report they had just shown us , left the Compromise of 1820 absolutely unaffected and unimpaired . Thirdly , the Committee favor us , by their chairman , with an oral explanation , that the ...
... Compro- mise of 1850 , which , in their report they had just shown us , left the Compromise of 1820 absolutely unaffected and unimpaired . Thirdly , the Committee favor us , by their chairman , with an oral explanation , that the ...
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... Compro- mise to the extent of the loss to free labor of one acre of the Territory of Nebraska , was either absolutely void , or ought , in all subse- qent legislation , to be deemed and held void . What if the spirit or the letter of ...
... Compro- mise to the extent of the loss to free labor of one acre of the Territory of Nebraska , was either absolutely void , or ought , in all subse- qent legislation , to be deemed and held void . What if the spirit or the letter of ...
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... Compro - imate uses , not merely to subvert the column , mises — not more that of 1820 than that of 1850 . itself , in 1830 , in this very place ,. carry out a new principle recently adopted in New Mexico , you can supplant a compromise ...
... Compro - imate uses , not merely to subvert the column , mises — not more that of 1820 than that of 1850 . itself , in 1830 , in this very place ,. carry out a new principle recently adopted in New Mexico , you can supplant a compromise ...
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... Compro - braska was an additional wound to be healed with their remonstrances , understand that Ne- " I now say , sir , as the proposition upon which I stand this day , and upon the truth and firmness of which I intend to act until it ...
... Compro - braska was an additional wound to be healed with their remonstrances , understand that Ne- " I now say , sir , as the proposition upon which I stand this day , and upon the truth and firmness of which I intend to act until it ...
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... Compro- | mise is not necessary for the purpose of estab- lishing Territorial Governments in Nebraska , but that , on the contrary , these bills , establish- ing such Governments , are only a vehicle for carrying , or a pretext for ...
... Compro- | mise is not necessary for the purpose of estab- lishing Territorial Governments in Nebraska , but that , on the contrary , these bills , establish- ing such Governments , are only a vehicle for carrying , or a pretext for ...
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Page 7 - That in all that territory ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty•six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, for ever prohibited...
Page 8 - ... it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 11 - ... north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire. And in such State or States as shall be formed out of said territory north of said Missouri compromise line, slavery, or involuntary servitude, (except for crime,) shall be prohibited.
Page 4 - 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...
Page 7 - an act to authorize the people of the Missouri Territory to form a constitution and State government, and for the admission of such State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States, and to prohibit slavery in certain territories...
Page 7 - Congress deemed it wise and prudent to refrain from deciding the matters in controversy then, either by affirming or repealing the Mexican laws, or by an act declaratory of the true intent of the Constitution and the extent of the protection afforded by it to slave property in the Territories ; so your committee are not prepared...
Page 7 - Under this section, as in the case of the Mexican law in New Mexico and Utah, it is a disputed point whether slavery is prohibited in the Nebraska country by valid enactment. The decision of this question involves the constitutional power of Congress to pass laws prescribing and regulating the domestic institutions of the various Territories of the Union. In the opinion of those eminent statesmen who hold that Congress is invested with no rightful authority to legislate upon the subject of slavery...
Page 11 - New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution.
Page 9 - I now throw my gauntlet at the feet of every senator now here, who was in the senate in 1850, and challenge him to say that he then knew, or thought, or dreamed, that, by enacting the compromise of 1850, he was directly or indirectly abrogating, or in any degree impairing, the Missouri Compromise ? No one takes it tip.
Page 11 - States as may be formed out of that portion of said territory lying south of thirty-six degrees thirty minutes north latitude, commonly known as the Missouri compromise line, shall be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as the people of each State asking admission may desire.