A Political History of Slavery: Being an Account of the Slavery Controversy from the Earliest Agitations in the Eighteenth Century to the Close of the Reconstruction Period in America, Volume 1G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1903 - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) |
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... GIDDINGS - ANNEXATION OF TEXAS . 53 CHAPTER IV THE WILMOT PROVISO - CLAY , CALHOUN , WEBSTER IN THE SENATE THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 CHAPTER V INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND THE TARIFF - FUGITIVE SLAVES -FILIBUSTERING IN CUBA - THE NEW DEMOCRACY ...
... GIDDINGS - ANNEXATION OF TEXAS . 53 CHAPTER IV THE WILMOT PROVISO - CLAY , CALHOUN , WEBSTER IN THE SENATE THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 CHAPTER V INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND THE TARIFF - FUGITIVE SLAVES -FILIBUSTERING IN CUBA - THE NEW DEMOCRACY ...
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... GIDDINGS - ANNEXATION OF TEXAS CHAPTER IV THE WILMOT PROVISO - CLAY , CALHOUN , WEBSTER IN THE SENATE THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 CHAPTER V INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND THE TARIFF - FUGITIVE SLAVES -FILIBUSTERING IN CUBA - THE NEW DEMOCRACY AND ...
... GIDDINGS - ANNEXATION OF TEXAS CHAPTER IV THE WILMOT PROVISO - CLAY , CALHOUN , WEBSTER IN THE SENATE THE COMPROMISE OF 1850 CHAPTER V INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS AND THE TARIFF - FUGITIVE SLAVES -FILIBUSTERING IN CUBA - THE NEW DEMOCRACY AND ...
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... Giddings and Owen Lovejoy in the House ; who looked to Horace Greeley , the Republican leader and party editor , rather than to William Lloyd Garrison , the ex- ponent of the Abolitionists , for guidance as well as inspiration , and ...
... Giddings and Owen Lovejoy in the House ; who looked to Horace Greeley , the Republican leader and party editor , rather than to William Lloyd Garrison , the ex- ponent of the Abolitionists , for guidance as well as inspiration , and ...
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... Giddings . This work is the result of original researches by a mem- ber of Congress , who through much labor secured the facts . VOL . I - 4 . An exceptional circumstance grew out of this war , which Intolerance and Reaction after 1830 49.
... Giddings . This work is the result of original researches by a mem- ber of Congress , who through much labor secured the facts . VOL . I - 4 . An exceptional circumstance grew out of this war , which Intolerance and Reaction after 1830 49.
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... GIDDINGS- ANNEXATION OF TEXAS N the month of April , 1839 , a number of young Africans were seized and carried on board the Tecora , a Portuguese slave ship which set sail for Havana . Here by the conni- vance of the Governor - General ...
... GIDDINGS- ANNEXATION OF TEXAS N the month of April , 1839 , a number of young Africans were seized and carried on board the Tecora , a Portuguese slave ship which set sail for Havana . Here by the conni- vance of the Governor - General ...
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Page 158 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void; 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...
Page 273 - That, while providing revenue for the support of the general government by duties upon imports, sound policy requires such an adjustment of these imposts as to encourage the development of the industrial interests of the whole country...
Page 300 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Page 245 - I John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. I had as I now think vainly flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
Page 300 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Page 106 - That as slavery does not exist by law, and is not likely to be introduced into any of the territory acquired by the United States from the republic of Mexico, it is inexpedient for Congress to provide by law either for its introduction into, or exclusion from, any part of the said territory...
Page 239 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Page 323 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 38 - I must go into the Presidential Chair the inflexible and uncompromising opponent of every attempt, on the part of Congress, to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, against the wishes of the slave-holding States...
Page 155 - First : That all questions pertaining to slavery in the territories, and in the new States to be formed therefrom, are to be left to the decision of the people residing therein, by their appropriate representatives, to be chosen by them for that purpose. Second: That "all cases involving title to slaves...