Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1913 |
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第 432 頁 - Dear Sir I have the pleasure to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 12th Feby under Cover of your obliging favor of the 25th from Wilmington: In reply to the former I cant help wishing you had been at Newbern...
第 496 頁 - And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, saying, If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace ! but now they are hid from thine eyes.
第 437 頁 - April next, no master or captain of any ship or vessel, or any other person, shall import or bring, or cause to be imported or brought, any negro, mulatto, or other person of color, not being a native, a citizen, or registered seaman of the United States...
第 252 頁 - My opinion is, that a reservation of a right to withdraw, if amendments be not decided on under the form of the Constitution within a certain time, is a conditional ratification ; that it does not make New- York a member of the new Union, and consequently that she could not be received on that plan.
第 372 頁 - And while the lamp holds out to burn The vilest sinner may return.
第 413 頁 - That we recognize the right of the people of all the Territories, including Kansas and Nebraska, acting through the legally and fairly expressed will of a majority of the actual residents, and whenever the number of their inhabitants justifies it, to form a Constitution with or without domestic slavery, and be admitted into the Union upon terms of perfect equality with the other States.
第 317 頁 - trio ",l as they term it, will be able to dictate terms in the next Presidential race. Let me hear from you when you can. I still hold to it that your majority cannot be under 10,000, and honestly believe it until the contrary is shewn. In the language of the old song, " I was not born in the woods to be scared by an owl.
第 504 頁 - I feel confident anarchy will soon ensue. And whether we shall be better off at the South will depend upon many things that I am not now satisfied that we have any assurance of. Revolutions are much easier started than controlled, and the men who begin them, even for the best purposes and objects, seldom end them.
第 269 頁 - It merely declared that the series of acts passed during the first session of the thirty-first Congress, known as the Compromise, are regard[ed] as a final adjustment and permanent settlement of the question therein embraced, and should be maintained and executed in good faith. RW Johnson of Ark. offered a substitute, embracing first about the same thing and then embracing the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, in the forts, arsenals, dock yards, Territories, and the slave trade between...
第 283 頁 - ... or public act that will sustain it. The events of that period are too fresh in the recollection of all to be forgotten. And I ask you if it was not a well ascertained fact then and long before that an overwhelming majority of the South denied the power of Congress to legislate upon the subject of slavery in the territories, either for or against it?