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... and the glorious promise | States , will be decided by the Supreme Court . of
the future , I willingly pass on from the vin The bill leaves the people “ free to
regulate dication of my people , to inquire what of their their own domestic
institutions ...
... and the glorious promise | States , will be decided by the Supreme Court . of
the future , I willingly pass on from the vin The bill leaves the people “ free to
regulate dication of my people , to inquire what of their their own domestic
institutions ...
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Ay , aborigines of the tropics ; but with a knowledge sir , I would rather leave the
question to the first of the hardy and enterprising character of the ' hundred
persons who reach the Territory than | first emigrants from England , we cannot
doubt ...
Ay , aborigines of the tropics ; but with a knowledge sir , I would rather leave the
question to the first of the hardy and enterprising character of the ' hundred
persons who reach the Territory than | first emigrants from England , we cannot
doubt ...
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It If further proof were needed of the high posi- was there at the adoption of the
Federal Constitution ; and tion he occupies on this question , it will be found this
Constitution did not merely leave it there , but expressly in his letter to the ...
It If further proof were needed of the high posi- was there at the adoption of the
Federal Constitution ; and tion he occupies on this question , it will be found this
Constitution did not merely leave it there , but expressly in his letter to the ...
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He proposed to ural and inalienable right to worship God according to the let
such a foreigner vote the very first day his dictates of their own conscience , ' we
leave to that bigotry foot ever trod on American soil . Nine tenths of which would ...
He proposed to ural and inalienable right to worship God according to the let
such a foreigner vote the very first day his dictates of their own conscience , ' we
leave to that bigotry foot ever trod on American soil . Nine tenths of which would ...
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It cannot certain extent , and by none to half the extent be otherwise ; and I leave
to others to penetrate that the Know Nothings carry it — the practice of the future ,
and tell us the consequences . Some turning everybody differing from us out of ...
It cannot certain extent , and by none to half the extent be otherwise ; and I leave
to others to penetrate that the Know Nothings carry it — the practice of the future ,
and tell us the consequences . Some turning everybody differing from us out of ...
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Page 12 - State may be entitled under the provisions of this act land scrip to the amount in acres for the deficiency of its distributive share; said scrip to be sold by said States and the proceeds thereof applied to the uses and purposes prescribed in this act, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever...
Page 12 - States, except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, (approved 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...
Page 11 - This Convention of Delegates, assembled in pursuance of a call addressed to the people of the United States, without regard to past political differences or divisions, who are opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the policy of the present Administration, to the extension of Slavery into Free Territory ; in favor of admitting Kansas as a Free State, of restoring the action of the Federal Government to...
Page 5 - That the legislative power of the Territory shall extend to all rightful subjects of legislation consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the provisions of this act...
Page 13 - Provided, That the right of suffrage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States...
Page 10 - December, eighteen hundred and fifty, and who shall have resided upon and cultivated the same for four consecutive years, and shall otherwise conform to the provisions of this act...
Page 13 - That every free white male inhabitant above the age of twenty-one years, who shall have been a resident of said Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory...
Page 10 - ... that you will not vote, nor give your influence for any man for any office in the gift of the people, unless he be an American-born citizen, in favor of Americans ruling America, nor if he be a Roman Catholic...
Page 10 - SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be and hereby is granted to every white settler or occupant of the public lands, American half-breed Indians included, above the age of eighteen years, being a citizen of the United States, or having made...
Page 10 - ... that if it may be done legally, you will, when elected or appointed to any official station conferring on you the power to do so remove all foreigners, aliens, or Roman Catholics from office or place, and that you will in no case appoint such to any office or place in your gift.
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| Title | Speeches ... Speeches, Lawrence O'Brien Branch |
| Author | Lawrence O'Brien Branch |
| Publisher | Printed at the office of the Congressional globe, 1856 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2007 |
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