Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1862 - United States |
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... slavery is right , and ought to be extended , while the other believes it is wrong , and ought not to be extended . This is the only substantial dispute . The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution , and the law for the suppression ...
... slavery is right , and ought to be extended , while the other believes it is wrong , and ought not to be extended . This is the only substantial dispute . The fugitive slave clause of the Constitution , and the law for the suppression ...
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... slavery now exists , which shall abolish the same therein , at any time , or times , before the first day of January , in the year of our Lord one thousand and nine hundred , shall receive compensation from the United States as follows ...
... slavery now exists , which shall abolish the same therein , at any time , or times , before the first day of January , in the year of our Lord one thousand and nine hundred , shall receive compensation from the United States as follows ...
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... slavery the rebellion could never have existed ; without slavery it could not continue . Among the friends of the Union there is great diversity of sentiment , and of policy , in regard to slavery , and the African race amongst us ...
... slavery the rebellion could never have existed ; without slavery it could not continue . Among the friends of the Union there is great diversity of sentiment , and of policy , in regard to slavery , and the African race amongst us ...
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... slavery , and especially of those who are to receive the compensation . Doubtless some of those who are to pay , and not to receive , will object . Yet the measure is both just and economical . In a certain sense , the liberation of ...
... slavery , and especially of those who are to receive the compensation . Doubtless some of those who are to pay , and not to receive , will object . Yet the measure is both just and economical . In a certain sense , the liberation of ...
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... slavery in this District last spring ? What I have said of the proportion of free colored persons to the whites , in the District , is from the census of 1860 , having no reference to persons called contrabands , nor to those made free ...
... slavery in this District last spring ? What I have said of the proportion of free colored persons to the whites , in the District , is from the census of 1860 , having no reference to persons called contrabands , nor to those made free ...
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Page 13 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate — we cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Page 23 - In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.
Page 196 - An act to suppress insurrection, to punish treason and rebellion, to seize and confiscate property of rebels, and for other purposes," approved July 17, 1862, and which sections are in the words and figures following : SEC.
Page 15 - Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the constitution of the United States; all or any of which articles, when ratified by three-fourths of the said legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said constitution...
Page 300 - ... respectively; also to hire and occupy houses and warehouses for the purposes of their commerce, and, generally, the merchants and traders of each nation respectively shall enjoy the most complete protection and security for their commerce, but subject always to the laws and statutes of the two countries respectively.
Page 196 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any...
Page 13 - ... lines, over which people may walk back and forth without any consciousness of their presence. No part of this line can be made any more difficult to pass, by writing it down on paper, or parchment, as a national boundary. The fact of separation, if it comes, gives up, on the part of the seceding section, the...
Page 23 - The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew.
Page 89 - An act further to provide for the collection of duties on imports, and for other purposes...
Page 197 - ... against the laws, unless the person Claiming said fugitive shall first make oath that the person to whom the labor or service of such fugitive is alleged to be due is his lawful...