Annual Report and Proceedings, כרכים 14-18Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, 1846 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
Abolition Abolitionism Abolitionists action addressed adjournment adopted agitation amendment American Anti-Slavery Society American Slavery Annual Meeting Anti believe Board Boston brethren British BUFFUM cause character Christian Church colored Committee Congress Constitution Convention crime declared Democratic Douglass duty earnest EDMUND QUINCY effect Emancipation enemies England excited existence faithful Faneuil Hall fidelity following resolution FRANCIS JACKSON Free Soil Party friends fugitive GARRISON Government hands heart held honor hope human interest JOHN justice labors Legislature liberty Massachusetts Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society ment Messrs Mexico mind moral motion National never nomination North Northern Ohio OLIVER GARDNER opinion Parker Pillsbury persons political present President principles Pro-Slavery purpose question refused Report Republic Resolved SAMUEL Senate session Slave Power Slaveholding South Southern speech spirit subject of Slavery success sympathy territory tion Union United vote WENDELL PHILLIPS Whigs WILLIAM WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON Wilmot Proviso zeal
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 5 - That, as an express and fundamental condition to the acquisition of any territory from the Republic of Mexico by the United States, by virtue of any treaty...
עמוד 14 - Nevertheless congress adopted his views without delay, and on the 13th declared that by an act of the republic of Mexico, a state of war existed between the two governments; it authorized the president to call for volunteers to any number, not exceeding 50,000, to serve for twelve months after arrival at the place of rendezvous, and placed at his disposal $10,000,000. The president immediately intimated to General Scott, the commander-in-chief...
עמוד 26 - The right of property is before and higher than any Constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.
עמוד 14 - House dissenting) had declared that " by the act of the Republic of Mexico a state of war exists between that Government and the United States...
עמוד 60 - Address from the People of Ireland to Their Countrymen and Countrywomen in America.
עמוד 15 - We hesitate not to say that Annexation, effected by any act or proceeding of the Federal Government, or any of its departments, would be identical with, dissolution. It would be a .violation of our National compact, its objects, designs, and the great elementary principles which entered into its formation, of a character so deep and fundamental, and would be an attempt to eternize an institution and a power...
עמוד 68 - If, however, any one should offer himself as a missionary, having slaves, and should insist on retaining them as his property, we could not appoint him. One thing is certain, we can never be a party to any arrangement which would imply approbation of slavery'.
עמוד 15 - ... nature so unjust in themselves, so injurious to the interests and abhorrent to the feelings of the people of the free States, as, in our opinion, not only inevitably to result in a dissolution of the Union, but fully to justify it...
עמוד 65 - ... Separation aforesaid, and based upon the Discipline of the Methodist Episcopal Church, comprehending the doctrines, and entire moral, ecclesiastical, and economical rules and regulations of said Discipline, except only in so far as verbal alterations may be necessary to a distinct organization, and to be known by the style and title of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
עמוד 15 - We hold that there is not only ' no political necessity' for it, ' no advantages to be derived from it,' but that there is no constitutional power delegated to any department of the National Government to authorize it ; that no act of Congress, or treaty for annexation, can impose the least obligation upon the several States of this Union to submit to such an unwarrantable act, or to receive into their family and fraternity such misbegotten and illegitimate progeny. "We hesitate not to say that Annexation,...