 The North has only to will it to accomplish it; to do justice by conceding to the South an equal right in the acquired territory, and to do her duty by causing the stipulations relative to fugitive slaves to be faithfully fulfilled; to cease the agitation...  The Works of William H. Seward - Page 63by William Henry Seward - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Philadelphia (Pa.). Citizens - Compromise of 1850 - 1850 - 98 pages
...according to the same authority in which this endangered Union can be saved, is, among other things, " to provide for the insertion of a provision in the Constitution...between the sections was destroyed by the action of the government." The complaint resolves itself mainly into the disproportioned growth of the North,... | |
 | William Henry Seward - California - 1850 - 24 pages
...CALIFORNIA, UNION, AND FREEDOM. by causing the stipulations relative to fugitive slaves to be faithfully fulfilled— cease the agitation of the slave question,...Constitution, by an amendment, which will restore to tlie South in substance the power she possessed of proleciing herself, before the equilibrium between... | |
 | James Henry Hammond - Funeral sermons - 1850 - 108 pages
...conviction that there was no other way to save it, hut by an amendment to the Constitution, " which would restore to the South in substance the power she possessed...protecting herself, before the equilibrium between the two sections was destroyed by the action of the Government." No speech ever pronounced in Congress... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Legislators - 1850 - 474 pages
...and provide for the insertion of a provision in the Constitution by an amendment, which will restore in substance the power she possessed of protecting...herself before the equilibrium between the sections w;i*i destroyed by the action of this government. There will be no difficulty in devising such a provision... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1851 - 544 pages
...her duty by causing the stipulations relative to fugitive slaves to be faithfully fulfilled — to cease the agitation of the slave question, and provide...the Constitution by an amendment, which will restore in substance the power she possessed of protecting herself before the equilibrium between the sections... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1852 - 98 pages
...appears to have been observed. After mentioning other means " to save the Union," he ends by proposing " the insertion of a provision in the Constitution by...sections was destroyed by the action of this government. There will be no difficulty," he adds, " in devising such a provision." That is, the hundred thousand... | |
 | Compromise of 1850 - 1854 - 144 pages
...be faithfully fulfilled—cease the agitation of me slave question—imd provide lor the inseition of a provision in the Constitution, by an amendment,...action of this Government." These terms amount to this ï that the free States having already, or although they may hereafter have, majorities of population,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1854 - 762 pages
...fugitive slaves to be faithfully fulfilled—to cease the agitatiocTof the" slave question, and to provide for the insertion of a provision in the constitution,...sections was destroyed by the action of this Government. There will be no difficulty in devising such a provision—one that will protect the South, and which,... | |
 | Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - Amazon River - 1854 - 234 pages
...fаithfully fulfilled—cease the agitation of me slave queetion—nod provide for the insettion of а provision in the Constitution, by an amendment, which will restore to the South in suh¿tance the power she possessed, of protecting herself, before the equilibrinm between the sections... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...territory, and do her duty by causing the stipulations relative to fugitive slaves to be faithfully fulfilled — cease the agitation of the slave question...power she possessed, of protecting herself, before the equilibrinm between the sections was destroyed by the action of this government." These terms amount... | |
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