Life of James Buchanan: Fifteenth President of the United States, 2. köideHarper & Brothers, 1883 - 707 pages |
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... Convention " -Fort Sumter - The Star of the West fired upon in Charleston Harbor - Anderson's temporary Truce - The Har- bor of Pensacola and Fort Pickens - The Communications between ex - President Tyler and President Buchanan ...
... Convention " -Fort Sumter - The Star of the West fired upon in Charleston Harbor - Anderson's temporary Truce - The Har- bor of Pensacola and Fort Pickens - The Communications between ex - President Tyler and President Buchanan ...
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... convention of all the Whigs , several attempts to have it declared by resolution that it must be accepted as a " Whig " nomination , and to declare what the principles of the Whig party were , were voted down . One proposal was to have ...
... convention of all the Whigs , several attempts to have it declared by resolution that it must be accepted as a " Whig " nomination , and to declare what the principles of the Whig party were , were voted down . One proposal was to have ...
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... Convention . I must therefore be brief . My public life is before the country , and it is my pride never to have From the Mississippian of January 9 , 1852 . evaded an important political question . The course of Democracy 22 LIFE OF ...
... Convention . I must therefore be brief . My public life is before the country , and it is my pride never to have From the Mississippian of January 9 , 1852 . evaded an important political question . The course of Democracy 22 LIFE OF ...
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... convention of the Democrats was the first to be held . It assembled at Baltimore on the 1st of June , 1852. Mr. Bu- chanan was one of the principal candidates for the nomination , but it soon became apparent that neither he , General ...
... convention of the Democrats was the first to be held . It assembled at Baltimore on the 1st of June , 1852. Mr. Bu- chanan was one of the principal candidates for the nomination , but it soon became apparent that neither he , General ...
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... convention , which assembled at Baltimore on the 16th of June , nominated General Winfield Scott , to the exclusion of Mr. Webster and President Fillmore , after fifty - two ballotings ; and although the resolutions , with a strength ...
... convention , which assembled at Baltimore on the 16th of June , nominated General Winfield Scott , to the exclusion of Mr. Webster and President Fillmore , after fifty - two ballotings ; and although the resolutions , with a strength ...
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Page 189 - 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 682 - For all flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
Page 257 - An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
Page 343 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Page 257 - All the powers of government, legislative, executive and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
Page 284 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 386 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the "United States of America,
Page 284 - That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained that no person should be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law...
Page 683 - Blessings are upon the head of the just: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked. 7: The memory of the just is blessed: but the name of the wicked shall rot.
Page 287 - Inasmuch as differences of opinion exist in the Democratic party as to the nature and extent of the powers of a Territorial legislature, and as to the powers and duties of Congress, under the Constitution of the United States, over the institution of slavery within the Territories — 2. Resolved, That the Democratic party will abide by the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States on the questions of constitutional law.