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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... Texas to Spain , and accepted a cession of the early - discovered and long - inhabited provinces of East Florida and West Florida . The United States stipulated , in each of these cases , to admit the countries thus annexed into the ...
... Texas to Spain , and accepted a cession of the early - discovered and long - inhabited provinces of East Florida and West Florida . The United States stipulated , in each of these cases , to admit the countries thus annexed into the ...
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... Texas and New Mexico , by a line that was at last arbitrarily made , ex- pressly saving , even in those Territories , to the respective parties , their respective shares of free soil and slave soil , according to the articles of ...
... Texas and New Mexico , by a line that was at last arbitrarily made , ex- pressly saving , even in those Territories , to the respective parties , their respective shares of free soil and slave soil , according to the articles of ...
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... Texas ? Here it is : secured by them . employed by the Government , in connection with the administration. " New States , of convenient size , not exceeding four in number , in addition to said State of Texas , having sufficient ...
... Texas ? Here it is : secured by them . employed by the Government , in connection with the administration. " New States , of convenient size , not exceeding four in number , in addition to said State of Texas , having sufficient ...
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... Texas , New Mexico , and California . But suppose we did refuse to extend it ; how did that refusal work a forfeiture of our vested rights under it ? I desire to know that . Again : If this forfeiture of Nebraska oc- curred in 1848 , as ...
... Texas , New Mexico , and California . But suppose we did refuse to extend it ; how did that refusal work a forfeiture of our vested rights under it ? I desire to know that . Again : If this forfeiture of Nebraska oc- curred in 1848 , as ...
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... ? There will be this act , the fugitive slave laws , the articles of Texas annexation , the Territorial laws of New Mexico and Utah , the slavery laws in the District of Columbia . Senators from the slaveholding States : You , too , 14.
... ? There will be this act , the fugitive slave laws , the articles of Texas annexation , the Territorial laws of New Mexico and Utah , the slavery laws in the District of Columbia . Senators from the slaveholding States : You , too , 14.
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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.