Recent Speeches and Addresses [1851-1855]Higgins and Bradley, 1856 - 562 páginas |
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... TREATIES . SPEECH IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES , 6TH MARCH , 1856 . 573-585 THE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS THE APOLOGIES FOR THE CRIME THE TRUE REMEDY . SPEECH IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES , 19TH AND 20TH MAY , 1856 , ON MR ...
... TREATIES . SPEECH IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES , 6TH MARCH , 1856 . 573-585 THE CRIME AGAINST KANSAS THE APOLOGIES FOR THE CRIME THE TRUE REMEDY . SPEECH IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES , 19TH AND 20TH MAY , 1856 , ON MR ...
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... treaty or compact . Afterwards , at the National Convention , these three provisions found a place in the first reported draft of a Constitution , and they were arranged in the very order which they occupied in the Articles of ...
... treaty or compact . Afterwards , at the National Convention , these three provisions found a place in the first reported draft of a Constitution , and they were arranged in the very order which they occupied in the Articles of ...
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... treaty , no nation is bound to surrender fugitives . Especially has this been the case with fugitives for Freedom . In mediæval Europe , cities refused to recognize this obligation in favor of persons even under the same National ...
... treaty , no nation is bound to surrender fugitives . Especially has this been the case with fugitives for Freedom . In mediæval Europe , cities refused to recognize this obligation in favor of persons even under the same National ...
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... treaties with foreign countries in concurrence with the President ; and , thirdly , the power " to advise and consent " to nominations by the President to offices under the Constitution . I say nothing of another , rarely called into ...
... treaties with foreign countries in concurrence with the President ; and , thirdly , the power " to advise and consent " to nominations by the President to offices under the Constitution . I say nothing of another , rarely called into ...
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... treaty , that the very name of Slavery may perish from the minds of men ; and only recently , from the Bey of Tunis , has proceeded that noble act , by which , " in honor of God , and to distinguish man from the brute creation " -I ...
... treaty , that the very name of Slavery may perish from the minds of men ; and only recently , from the Bey of Tunis , has proceeded that noble act , by which , " in honor of God , and to distinguish man from the brute creation " -I ...
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Página 152 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 533 - Washington — first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen...
Página 511 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Página 251 - 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...
Página 341 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Página 311 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty, That they pass by me, as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Página 27 - January, 1819, shall remain exempt from any tax laid by order, or under any authority of the State, whether for State, county, or township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale...
Página 293 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Página 575 - Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is [consequently to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an Act of the Legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
Página 248 - 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, forever prohibited.