The Life of Gen: Frank

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Derby & Miller; Buffalo G. H. Derby & Company, 1852 - 300 من الصفحات

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الصفحة 252 - That Congress has no power under the Constitution to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs not prohibited by the Constitution...
الصفحة 252 - That the foregoing proposition covers and was intended to embrace the whole subject of slavery agitation in Congress, and therefore the Democratic party of the Union, standing on this national platform, will abide by and adhere to a faithful execution of the acts known as the Compromise measures, settled by the Congress of 1850 : " the act for reclaiming fugitives from service or labor...
الصفحة 254 - That the Democratic party will faithfully abide by and uphold, the principles laid down in the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798, and in the report of Mr. Madison to the Virginia Legislature in 1799; that it adopts those principles as constituting one of the main foundations of its political creed, and is resolved to carry them out in their obvious meaning and import.
الصفحة 252 - That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the democratic faith...
الصفحة 122 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers relating in any way or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table...
الصفحة 253 - That the proceeds of the public lands ought to be sacredly applied to the national objects specified in the constitution ; and that we are opposed to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among the States, as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant to the constitution.
الصفحة 253 - act for reclaiming fugitives from service or labor'' included ; which act, being designed to carry out an express provision of the constitution, cannot with fidelity thereto be repealed or so changed as to destroy or impair its efficiency. Resolved, That the democratic party will resist all attempts at renewing, in Congress or out of it, the agitation of the slavery question, under whatever shape or color the attempt may be made.
الصفحة 122 - That Congress possesses no constitutional authority to interfere in any way with the institution of slavery in any of the States of this Confederacy." " Resolved, That Congress ought not to interfere in any way with slavery in the District of Columbia.
الصفحة 251 - Congress has no power to charter a national bank ; that we believe such an institution one of deadly hostility to the best interests of the country, dangerous to our republican institutions and the liberties of the people, and calculated to place the business of the country within the control of a concentrated money power, and above the laws and the will of the people...
الصفحة 254 - They are the most efficient means yet devised for appropriating the fruits of industry to the benefit of the few at the expense of the many...

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