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... persons who had passed their whole lives in opposing , deriding , and spurning it , so almost all those who stand upon this Know Nothing platform now , denounc- ing the Kansas and Nebraska bill , are persons who advocated , and such of ...
... persons who had passed their whole lives in opposing , deriding , and spurning it , so almost all those who stand upon this Know Nothing platform now , denounc- ing the Kansas and Nebraska bill , are persons who advocated , and such of ...
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... persons amongst my constituents whose errors even , are entitled to respectful consideration , and who are not likely to err when fully informed . Before proceeding to my main object , I desire to say that the vote I gave at the last ...
... persons amongst my constituents whose errors even , are entitled to respectful consideration , and who are not likely to err when fully informed . Before proceeding to my main object , I desire to say that the vote I gave at the last ...
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... person now paying ten dollars to the sheriff for State tax , will be required to pay in addi- tion , six dollars to the Government to make up the deficiency caused by the division of the land money . Not wishing to complicate my ...
... person now paying ten dollars to the sheriff for State tax , will be required to pay in addi- tion , six dollars to the Government to make up the deficiency caused by the division of the land money . Not wishing to complicate my ...
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... person , native or foreigner , who will go and live on it . This is a favorite project with the Red and Black Republicans , and I am sorry to say , finds some advocates in the Democratic ranks . Having discussed it very fully at the ...
... person , native or foreigner , who will go and live on it . This is a favorite project with the Red and Black Republicans , and I am sorry to say , finds some advocates in the Democratic ranks . Having discussed it very fully at the ...
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... person make a calculation for himself — if putting upon the market five millions of acres per year depresses the price ... persons are now advo- eating them . Mr. Calhoun offered in the Senate , in 1840 or 1841 , a bill to cede the lands ...
... person make a calculation for himself — if putting upon the market five millions of acres per year depresses the price ... persons are now advo- eating them . Mr. Calhoun offered in the Senate , in 1840 or 1841 , a bill to cede the lands ...
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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.