Speech of Hon. H.S. Geyer, of Missouri, on the Kansas Controversy: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, April 7-8, 1856Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1856 - Всего страниц: 29 |
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Abolitionists act of Congress admission of Missouri adoption agitation amendment authority Big Springs convention citizens claimed clause committee compact compromise of 1850 election emigrant aid society exclusive form a constitution free State voted Free-Soilers free-State fugitive GEYER gress Hartford Convention HERALD OF FREEDOM honorable Senator House of Representatives Indiana jurisdiction Kansas legion Kansas-Nebraska act large number legislation Legislature March ment minority report Missouri compromise Missouri prohibition Nays needful rules northern obligation Ohio ordinance of 1787 organization organize territorial party passed political supremacy power of Congress power to dispose President prohibit slavery property belonging proposed proposition provision question recognized regulations respecting repeal resolution respecting the territory ritory rules and regulations Senator from Illinois Senator from Massachusetts Senator from Vermont service or labor settle Sharpe's rifles slave slave power slaveholding southern stitution subject of slavery temporary government territorial governments Territory of Kansas tion Topeka Union United western Missouri Yeas
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Стр. 16 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Стр. 7 - Perhaps the power of governing a territory belonging to the United States which has not by becoming a State acquired the means of self-government may result necessarily from the facts that it is not within the jurisdiction of any particular State, and is within the power and jurisdiction of the United States. The right to govern may be the inevitable consequence of the right to acquire territory. Whichever may be the source whence the power is derived, the possession of it is unquestioned.
Стр. 16 - 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; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and...
Стр. 29 - It is also agreed that if any servant run away from his master into any other of these confederated Jurisdictions, that in such case, upon the certificate of one magistrate in the Jurisdiction out of which the said servant fled, or upon other due proof ; the said servant shall be delivered, either to his master, or any other that pursues and brings such certificate or proof.
Стр. 7 - The term territory, as here used, is merely descriptive of one kind of property, and is equivalent to the word lands. And Congress has the same power over it as over any other property belonging to the United States...
Стр. 16 - ... act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to revive or put in force any law or regulation which may have existed prior to the act of sixth of March, eighteen hundred and twenty, either protecting, establishing, prohibiting,...
Стр. 7 - Court, the colonists would be in a state of the most complete subordination, and as dependent upon the will of Congress, as the people of this country would have been upon the king and parliament of Great Britain, if they could have sustained their claim to bind us in all cases whatsoever. Such a state...
Стр. 25 - ... or returned, or in any manner aid in the arrest or return of any person or persons to a condition of peonage, shall, upon conviction, be punished by fine not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not less than one nor more than five years, or both, at the discretion of the court.
Стр. 4 - ... laws and constitutions are erected: to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory: to provide also for the establishment of States, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original States, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Стр. 14 - Court on the first day of their said session, and if upon trial at the said Court, it shall be made to appear that the said person has thus continued within the Commonwealth, contrary to the tenor of this act, he or she shall be whipped not exceeding ten stripes, and ordered to depart out of...