Journal of the Missouri State ConventionGeorge Knapp & Company, 1863 - 70 halaman |
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Abolitionists action adjourn adopted amendment ayes and noes AYES-Messrs believe Birch body Bogy Bonnifield Breckinridge Broadhead bushwhackers called Cayce cipation citizens Comingo committee Constitution Convention declared desire District Doniphan Drake of St duty Duvall eighteen hundred Eitzen election favor Frayser Gamble Gantt gentleman from St Government Governor Gravelly Hall Henderson Hitchcock Hough Howell Isbell JEFFERSON CITY labor Leeper Legislature Lindenbower Louis loyal majority Marmaduke Marvin Matson matter McClurg McFerran ment Meyer military Missouri motion Moxley negro NOES-Messrs offered ordinance owners party pass peace present President Prewitt proposition Provost Marshal question reason rebel rebellion referred resolution Ritchey Sayre Schofield session Shackelford of St Shanklin Sheeley slaveholders slavery slaves Smith of St soldiers souri Stewart submit tion Union vacancy Vanbuskirk vention vote Woodson Woolfolk writ of election
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Halaman 238 - The new constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution, African slavery as it exists among us, the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization." This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his fore'cast, had anticipated this as the "rock upon which the old Union would split.
Halaman 77 - That the people of this State have the inherent, sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal government and police thereof, and of altering and abolishing their Constitution and form of government whenever it may be necessary for their safety and happiness...
Halaman 288 - Resolved that the United States ought to co-operate with any state which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such state pecuniary aid, to be used by such state in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences public and private, produced by such change of system.
Halaman 165 - It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces, and it means that the United States must and will, sooner or later, become either entirely a slaveholding nation, or entirely a free-labor nation.
Halaman 243 - The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically.
Halaman 160 - For the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, or without paying them, before such emancipation, a full equivalent for such slaves so emancipated...
Halaman 207 - All officers or persons in the military or naval service of the United States are prohibited from employing any of the forces under their respective commands for the purpose of returning fugitives from service or labor, who may have escaped from any persons to whom such service or labor is claimed to be due, and any officer who shall be found guilty by a court-martial of violating this article shall be dismissed from the service. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That this act shall take effect...
Halaman 78 - Every white* male citizen of the United States, who shall have attained the age of twenty-one years...
Halaman 163 - That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, Polygamy and Slavery.
Halaman 238 - Pause, I entreat you, and consider for a moment what reasons you can give that will even satisfy yourselves in calmer moments — what reasons you can give to your fellow-sufferers in the calamity that it will bring upon us.