Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ss has no jurisdictionwhatever over the institution of slavery in th-, fgv-eral States of the confederacy. The vote upon this resolution stood : 196for it, and 6 against it. The second resolution was in these words : Resolved, That petitions for the abolition o)slavery in the District of Columbia and the Terri-tories of the United States, and against the removalof slaves from one State to another, are a part of aplan of operations set on foot to affect the institu-tion of slavery in the Southern States, and thus indi-rectly to destroy that institution within their limits. On this resolution the vote stood : 136 forit, and 65 against it. The third resolution was in these words : Resolved, That Congress has no right to do thatindirectly which it cannot do directly ; and that theagitation of the subject of slavery in the District ofColumbia, or the Territories, as a means, and witha view, of disturbing or overthrowing that institutionin the several States, is against the true spirit an**
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37 VIEW OF THE NATIONAL CAPITOL AT WASHINGTON. /)77 57S FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CI\TL WAR. meaning of the constitution, an infringement of therights of the States affected, and a breach of thepublic faith upon which they entered into the con-federacy. The vote on this resolution was : 164 infavor of it, and 40 against it. The fourth of this series was in thesewords : Resohed, The constitution rests on the broadprinciple of equality among the members of thisconfederacy, and that Congress, in the exercise ofits acknowledged powers, has no right to discrimi-nate between the institutions of one portion of theStates and another, with a view of abolishing theone and promoting the other. The vote on this resolution was: 174 infavor of it, and 24 against it. Resolution Against Slavery Agitation. The fifth and last of Mr. Athertons reso-lutions was in these words : Resolved, That all attempts on the part of Congressto abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, or theTerritories, or to pro

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