 They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy, but that the promulgation of Abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils. They believe that the Congress of the United States has no power...  Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years, - Page 212by Carl Sandburg - 1926Full view - About this book
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...protest was presented to the house, which was read and ordered to be spread on the journal, to wit : " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having...be exercised unless at the request of the people of said district. " The difference between these opinions and those contained in the said resolutions,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...presented to the house, which was read and ordered to be spread on the journal, to wit : " Eesolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed...be exercised unless at the request of the people of said district. " The difference between these opinions and those contained in the said resolutions,... | |
 | Nathaniel Lyon - Generals - 1861 - 298 pages
...in the States ; that though Congress had power over the matter in the District of Columbia, " that power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of said District." It is this obvious integrity and sense of justice that commends Mr. Lincoln to his... | |
 | Nathaniel Lyon - Generals - 1861 - 320 pages
...in the States ; that though Congress had power over the matter in the District of Columbia, " that power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of -the people of said District." It is this obvious integrity and sense of justice that commends Mr. Lincoln to his... | |
 | Robert Tomes, Benjamin G. Smith - Slavery - 1862 - 764 pages
...the Illinois Legislature on the 3d of March, 1837, he united with a fellow-member in saying that : " They believe that the institution of slavery is founded...be exercised unless at the request of the people of said District." His action while in Congress, as since his election to the Presidency, has been in... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...was presented to the House, which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals, to wit : •' Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having...exercised, unless at the request of the people of said District. " The difference between these opinions and those contained in the said resolutions,... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 296 pages
...wa« presented to the House, which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals, to wit : — " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having...exercised, unless at the request of the people of said District. " The difference between these opinions and those contained in the said resolutions,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...colleagues, his views relative to slavery, in the following protest, bearing date March 3d, 183T : — " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having...exercised, unless at the request of the people of said district." In 1838 and 1840, he was again elected and received the vote of his party for the speakership.... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...colleagues, his views relative to slavery, in the following protest, bearing date March 3d, 1837 : — "Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery...exercised, unless at the request of the people of said district." In 1838 and 1840, he was again elected and received the vote of his party for the speakership.... | |
 | John Gilmary Shea - History - 1865 - 306 pages
...was presented to the House, which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals, to wit : — " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having...exercised, unless at the request of the people of said District. " The difference between these opinions and those contained in the said resolutions,... | |
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