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... Senate , allowing the Government to employ coloured men as mail - carriers ; but even in a Republican House of Representatives , the bill was rejected by a large majority . About State legislation , with regard to the free negro , there ...
... Senate , allowing the Government to employ coloured men as mail - carriers ; but even in a Republican House of Representatives , the bill was rejected by a large majority . About State legislation , with regard to the free negro , there ...
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... senators , represen- tatives , and ministers , reside there for two , four , possibly six sessions , as the case may be ; and the fact of their being in Congress or in office now is rather a presump- tion than otherwise , that they will ...
... senators , represen- tatives , and ministers , reside there for two , four , possibly six sessions , as the case may be ; and the fact of their being in Congress or in office now is rather a presump- tion than otherwise , that they will ...
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... senators , army contractors and Jews ; artists , newspaper writers , tourists , prizefighters , and gamblers , were mixed up with a nondescript crowd of men , who seem to have no business except to hang about , and to belong to no ...
... senators , army contractors and Jews ; artists , newspaper writers , tourists , prizefighters , and gamblers , were mixed up with a nondescript crowd of men , who seem to have no business except to hang about , and to belong to no ...
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... - fully so ; and the one relic of antiquity is found in the old Senate Chamber , where the Supreme Court now holds its sittings . This was about the only part of the old Capitol which was not burnt down by our troops 102 CONGRESS .
... - fully so ; and the one relic of antiquity is found in the old Senate Chamber , where the Supreme Court now holds its sittings . This was about the only part of the old Capitol which was not burnt down by our troops 102 CONGRESS .
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... Senator Wade , of Ohio , had made a hustings ' speech attacking the democratic party in these words : — " I accuse them of a deliberate purpose , to assail , through the judicial tribunals , and through the Senate and House of ...
... Senator Wade , of Ohio , had made a hustings ' speech attacking the democratic party in these words : — " I accuse them of a deliberate purpose , to assail , through the judicial tribunals , and through the Senate and House of ...
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Página 122 - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Página 213 - Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same govem1nent. Nature, habit, opinion have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Página 213 - ... passu, filled up by free white laborers. If, on the contrary, it is left to force itself on, human nature must shudder at the prospect held up.
Página 122 - Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as -well on situation and circumstances as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be reserved...
Página 213 - But it was found that the public mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor will it bear it even at this day. Yet the day is not distant when it must bear and adopt it, or worse will follow. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate, than that these people are to be free; nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government.
Página 190 - Resolved, That the United States ought to cooperate with any State which may adopt a gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Página 148 - State thus disadvantageously circumstanced of its most useful inhabitants ; its wealth, and its consequence in the scale of the confederated States would sink of course.