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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... honor , jus- tice , and good faith , which it is presumed will not be committed . Such was the Compromise of 1820. Mis- souri came into the Union immediately as a slaveholding State , and Arkansas came in as a slaveholding State ...
... honor , jus- tice , and good faith , which it is presumed will not be committed . Such was the Compromise of 1820. Mis- souri came into the Union immediately as a slaveholding State , and Arkansas came in as a slaveholding State ...
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... honored statute of the American Congress . drawn by the master - hand of our American Therefore , let the law of freedom in the terri- Chatham . Does that bespeak your favor by a tory acquired from France be now annulled quibbling or ...
... honored statute of the American Congress . drawn by the master - hand of our American Therefore , let the law of freedom in the terri- Chatham . Does that bespeak your favor by a tory acquired from France be now annulled quibbling or ...
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... honor and con- science ? Can you abrogate a compromise by passing any law of less dignity than a com- promise ? If so , of what value is any one or the whole of the Compromises ? Thus you see that these bills violate both of the Compro ...
... honor and con- science ? Can you abrogate a compromise by passing any law of less dignity than a com- promise ? If so , of what value is any one or the whole of the Compromises ? Thus you see that these bills violate both of the Compro ...
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... honor , justice , and good faith ? As to my right , or that of any other Senator , to enter these lists , the credentials filed in the Secretary's office settle that question . Mine bear a seal , as broad and as firmly fixed there | as ...
... honor , justice , and good faith ? As to my right , or that of any other Senator , to enter these lists , the credentials filed in the Secretary's office settle that question . Mine bear a seal , as broad and as firmly fixed there | as ...
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... honor and love freedom ! You will not cease to cherish slavery . Do you see any signs that we are becoming indifferent to freedom ? On the contrary , that old , traditional , hereditary senti- ment of the North is more profound and more ...
... honor and love freedom ! You will not cease to cherish slavery . Do you see any signs that we are becoming indifferent to freedom ? On the contrary , that old , traditional , hereditary senti- ment of the North is more profound and more ...
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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.