Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers, and Speeches, Τόμος 4

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Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 1923
The true story of the Southern Confederacy lies in the letters, speeches, and State papers of its leaders; and its best justification will come after such historical materials have been made accessible to the truth-loving historian of the future. The private and public papers of such Southern leaders as Calhoun, Davis, and Lee will reveal, as nothing else can, the principles for which they contended, and give to posterity the true estimate of their lives and deeds. -- Introduction.
 

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Σελίδα 308 - 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.
Σελίδα 146 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Σελίδα 499 - An act making provision for arming and equipping the whole body of the militia of the United States," shall be paid, for each* year, respectively, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Σελίδα 302 - That in case of the death, removal, resignation, or necessary absence of the governor of the said territory, the secretary thereof shall be, and he is hereby authorized and required to execute all the powers, and perform all the duties of the governor, during the vacancy occasioned by the removal, resignation, or necessary absence of the said governor.
Σελίδα 250 - Resolved, That, in the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the states adopting the same acted severally as free, independent, and sovereign states ; and that each, for itself, by its own voluntary assent, entered the Union with the view to its increased security against all dangers, domestic as well as foreign, and the more perfect and secure enjoyment of its advantages, natural, political, and social.
Σελίδα 307 - 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," included; which act, being designed to carry out an express provision of the constitution, cannot.
Σελίδα 258 - Union; and to call forth the force of the Union against any member of the Union failing to fulfil its duty under the articles thereof.
Σελίδα 268 - And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives Congress a greater power over slave property, or which entitles property of that kind to less protection than property of any other descriptioa The only power conferred is the power coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting the owner in his rights.
Σελίδα 508 - When immediate delivery or performance is required by the public exigency, the articles or services required may be procured by open purchase or contract, at the places and in the manner in which such articles are usually bought and sold, or such services engaged, between individuals.
Σελίδα 260 - States who wished to have a vortex for every thing — that her distance would preclude her from equal advantage — and that she could not prudently purchase it by yielding national powers. From this it might be understood in what light she would view an attempt to abridge one of her favorite prerogatives. If left to herself, she may probably put a stop to the evil.

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