Letter to Hon. William Nelson, M.C., on Mr. Webster's Speech, from William JayW. Harned, 1850 - Всего страниц: 22 |
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acquired admission admitted annexation anti-slavery agitation Asiatic avowed bondage Boston broken CALI Canada candidate Cass cause citizen clients commenced COMPROMISES conceal Congress consent of Texas Constitution counsel Court crime DANIEL WEBSTER denouncing dered discovery eighteen emancipated exclusion of slavery existed expressed extension of slavery fiction fiercer formation FORNIA freedom friends fugitive geographical law GLORIOUS UNION guilt HALL happiness harbored Hear heart hereafter human hundred dollars imposed inquire intimate JAY'S LETTER joint resolutions jury lady law of nature law of physical legislative Legislature of Massachusetts liberty lodge March ment Mexico multitude NATIONAL PLEDGE negro New-Mexico and California New-York nominated north of 36 Northern obligations opinion opposed physical geography politicians prisoner proclaimed prohibition prosecution raging rebuke scenery scorn Senate sentiment six months slave representation slaveholders Stray subject of slavery SUPPOSED territory Texan THREE SLAVE tion unanimously United unto vote WEBSTER'S SPEECH Whig party whole nation Wilmot proviso
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Стр. 4 - possesses the constitutional power, upon the admission of any new State created beyond the limits of the original territory of the United States, to make the prohibition of the further extension of slavery or involuntary servitude in such new State a condition of its admission.
Стр. 5 - My opposition to the increase of slavery in this country, or to the increase of slave-representation, is general and universal. It has no reference to the lines of latitude or points of the compass. I shall oppose all such extension...
Стр. 4 - I should be unwilling to receive from the legislature of Massachusetts any instructions to present resolutions, expressive of any opinion whatever on the subject of slavery, as it exists at the present moment in the states, for two reasons ; because — first, I do not consider that the legislature of Massachusetts has anything to do with it ; and next, I do not consider that I, as her representative here, have anything to do with it.
Стр. 11 - ... upon the plea of not guilty, than they are in every civil case, tried upon the general issue. In each of these cases, their verdict, when general, is necessarily compounded of law and of fact...
Стр. 4 - ... only on the subject of slavery in this District, but sometimes recommending Congress to consider the means of abolishing slavery in the States. I should be sorry to be called upon to present any resolutions here which could not be referable to any committee or any power in Congress; and therefore I should be unwilling to receive from the legislature of Massachusetts any instructions to present resolutions expressive of any opinion whatever on the subject of slavery, as it exists at the present...
Стр. 4 - At the Whig Convention at Springfield, in 1847, he maintained that the Wilmot Proviso was his " thunder." " Did I not commit myself in 1837 to the whole doctrine, fully, entirely?" "I cannot quite consent that more recent discoverers should claim the merit and take out a patent.
Стр. 6 - Now, as to California and New Mexico, I hold slavery to be excluded from those Territories by a law even superior to that which admits and sanctions it in Texas. I mean the law of nature, of physical geography, the law of the formation of the earth. That law settles forever, with a strength beyond all terms of human enactment, that slavery cannot exist in California or New Mexico.
Стр. 4 - Legislature against the extension of slavery, — which had been passed unanimously, — and he endorsed them all. " I thank her for it, and am proud of her; for she has denounced the whole object for which our armies are now traversing the mountains of Mexico." " If any thing is certain, it is that the sentiment of the whole North is utterly opposed to the acquisition of territory to be formed into new Slave-holding States.