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... believe a steam - boat captain , deceived possibly by one of these acts of Legislature , attempted to as- cend the " navigable " river Sangamon , and did succeed in reaching a small place called Portland , near Springfield , but the ...
... believe a steam - boat captain , deceived possibly by one of these acts of Legislature , attempted to as- cend the " navigable " river Sangamon , and did succeed in reaching a small place called Portland , near Springfield , but the ...
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... believe that feature does distinguish the two cases , and gentlemen are entitled to all the merit they can derive from it . I am in- formed that in one of those trying cases during the last war , which required great energy and nerve ...
... believe that feature does distinguish the two cases , and gentlemen are entitled to all the merit they can derive from it . I am in- formed that in one of those trying cases during the last war , which required great energy and nerve ...
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... believe that the expression of such sentiments is consistent with the sincerity of their professions - with patriotism , honor , and duty to their country . Patriotism emanates from the heart ; it fills the soul ; inspires the whole man ...
... believe that the expression of such sentiments is consistent with the sincerity of their professions - with patriotism , honor , and duty to their country . Patriotism emanates from the heart ; it fills the soul ; inspires the whole man ...
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... believe we should be justified , in the opinion of other nations , for taking such a step . " Such was the posture of our affairs with Mexico in 1837 and 1838 , and the opinion of the several departments of our government in regard to ...
... believe we should be justified , in the opinion of other nations , for taking such a step . " Such was the posture of our affairs with Mexico in 1837 and 1838 , and the opinion of the several departments of our government in regard to ...
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... believe the last Congress did pass an act upon that sub- ject , and I will remind the gentleman that the present Congress has passed an act extending the revenue laws of the United States over the country be- tween the Rio del Norte and ...
... believe the last Congress did pass an act upon that sub- ject , and I will remind the gentleman that the present Congress has passed an act extending the revenue laws of the United States over the country be- tween the Rio del Norte and ...
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Page 401 - We are now far into the fifth year since a policy was initiated with the avowed object and confident promise of putting an end to slavery agitation. Under the operation of that policy, that agitation has not only not ceased, but has constantly augmented. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Page 508 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Page 305 - 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 own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 305 - Kansas, and when admitted as a state or states, the said territory, or any portion of the same, shall be received into the union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission...
Page 476 - We will neither import nor purchase any slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave trade and will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
Page 508 - Shall I tell you what this collision means? They who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the work of interested or fanatical agitators, and therefore ephemeral, mistake the case altogether. 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 405 - Our cause, then, must be intrusted to and conducted by its own undoubted friends — those whose hands are free, whose hearts are in the work, who do care for the result. Two years ago the Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through,...
Page 405 - ... Republicans of the nation mustered over thirteen hundred thousand strong. We did this under the single impulse of resistance to a common danger, with every external circumstance against us. Of strange, discordant, and even hostile elements, we gathered from the four winds, and formed and fought the battle through, under .the constant hot fire of a disciplined, proud and pampered enemy. Did we brave all then to falter now ? — now — when that same enemy is wavering, dissevered and belligerent?...
Page 337 - That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Page 402 - ... sand— helped to carry an election, and then was kicked to the winds. His late joint struggle with the Republicans, against the Lecompton Constitution, involves nothing of the original Nebraska doctrine. That struggle was made on a point — the right of a people to make their own constitution — upon which he and the Republicans have never differed. The several points of the Dred Scott decision, in connection with Senator Douglas's "care not" policy, constitute the piece of machinery, in its...