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... present agitated and distracted condition of the country , and the grievances between the slaveholding and non - slaveholding States , be referred to a special committee of thirteen members ; and that said committee be instructed to ...
... present agitated and distracted condition of the country , and the grievances between the slaveholding and non - slaveholding States , be referred to a special committee of thirteen members ; and that said committee be instructed to ...
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... Present : Messrs . Powell , Hunter , Crittenden , Toombs , Douglas , Collamer , Wade , Bigler , Rice , Doolittle , and Grimes . After an informal conversation , On motion , The committee adjourned to meet on Saturday morning at 10 o ...
... Present : Messrs . Powell , Hunter , Crittenden , Toombs , Douglas , Collamer , Wade , Bigler , Rice , Doolittle , and Grimes . After an informal conversation , On motion , The committee adjourned to meet on Saturday morning at 10 o ...
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... present perilous juncture , does not deem it improper , respectfully and earnestly , to recommend the repeal of those laws to the several States which have enacted them , or such legislative cor- rections or explanations of them , as ...
... present perilous juncture , does not deem it improper , respectfully and earnestly , to recommend the repeal of those laws to the several States which have enacted them , or such legislative cor- rections or explanations of them , as ...
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... present , Mr. Seward having at- tended . Mr. Seward stated the reasons why he was unavoidably absent from former meetings of the committee , and asked and obtained leave to have his vote recorded on the several propositions voted upon ...
... present , Mr. Seward having at- tended . Mr. Seward stated the reasons why he was unavoidably absent from former meetings of the committee , and asked and obtained leave to have his vote recorded on the several propositions voted upon ...
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... present . The consideration of the resolutions submitted by Mr. Toombs on the 22d instant was resumed . On the question to agree to the fourth resolution , On motion by Mr. Crittenden to amend the same by striking out the words , " or ...
... present . The consideration of the resolutions submitted by Mr. Toombs on the 22d instant was resumed . On the question to agree to the fourth resolution , On motion by Mr. Crittenden to amend the same by striking out the words , " or ...
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5th and 20th A. G. Sloo accompany bill additional compensation additional expense additional service affirmative amendments annum Bigler BRADY California mails carrying the mails claim Collamer contract contractors Crittenden Davis direct line direct steamers Doolittle Douglas duties following REPORT GEORGE LAW Grimes Havana and Aspinwall Havana and Chagres Hunter inclose instant July June June 18 June 23 letter M. O. ROBERTS Mail Steamship Company memorialists ment Messrs N. K. HALL nays negative negative-yeas obedient servant Orleans and Aspinwall Orleans and Chagres Panama patent petitioner pinwall POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT Postmaster Powell President proposition question to agree received referred reply respectfully Rice route rule-yeas Samuel F. B. Morse San Francisco Savannah schedule Secretary Secretary of War Senate Seward ships submitted the following Territory tion Toombs twice a month U. S. Mail Steamship ultimo UNITED STATES MAIL United States Navy voted Wade York and Aspinwall York and Chagres
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Page 11 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 8 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States as amendments to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 1 - Very respectfully, your obedient servant, " JOHN B. FLOYD, Secretary of War.
Page 19 - Cincinnati, for the transportation of the United States mail from New York to New Orleans, twice a month and back, touching at Charleston, (if practicable,) Savannah, and Havana; and from Havana to Chagres and back, twice a month.
Page 6 - State laws which conflict with the fugitive slave acts, or any other constitutional acts of Congress, or which in their operation impede, hinder, or delay the free course and due execution of any of said acts, are null and void by the plain provisions of the Constitution of the United States. Yet those State laws, void as they are, have given color to practices, and led to consequences which have obstructed the due administration and execution of acts of Congress, and especially the acts for the...