Download or read book Speech of Mr Davis of Mississippi on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories Delivered in the Senate of the United States February 13 14 185 written by Jefferson Davis and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Speech of Mr Davis of Mississippi on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories written by Jefferson Davis and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Davis, of Mississippi, on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, February 13& 14, 1850 In this hope I have been disappointed - grievously disappointed by the character of the resolutions which he has introduced, and yet more grievously disappointed in the remarks by which they were prefaced. If that great power and influence to which I have alluded, and that eloquence upon which multitudes have hung entranced, and remembered only to admire, had now been exerted in the cause of the weak against the strong, the cause of the Constitution against its aggressors, the evils by which we are surrounded might perhaps have been removed, and the decline of that Senator's sun been even more bright than its meridian glory. But, instead of this, he has chosen to throw his influence into the scale of the preponderating aggressive majority, and in so doing vehemently to assert his undisputed right to express his opinions fearless of all mankind. Why, sir. there was nothing to apprehend, and I presume no one will dispute the right of the Senator to advance his opinions in any decorous language he might choose. Mr. President, my feelings and my duties run in the same channel. My convictions of what is necessary to preserve the Union correspond with my opinions in relation to the local and peculiar interests which I particularly represent. I have therefore no sacrifices to make, unless it be that personal sacrifice I make in appearing under circumstances like those which now surround me. The greater part of the Senator's argument has been directed against the right of the Southern States to that equality of enjoyment in the Territories to which they assert they are entitled. He has rebuked the spirit of abolitionism as the evil of the country, but, in doing so, instead of describing it as a factious, disorganizing, revolutionary spirit, he has only spoken of it as the offspring of party, the result of passion. Now, Mr. President, I contend that the reverse is true. I contend that it is the want of party which has built up this faction and rendered it dangerous; that so long as party organization preserved its integrity, there was no place for a third party, and no danger from it. If this were merely the result of passion, I should then have hopes which I cannot now cherish. If it were the mere outbreak of violence, I should see some prospect for its subsidence. But considering it, as I do, the cold, calculating purpose of those who seek for sectional dominion, I see nothing short of conquest on the one side, or submission on the other. This is the great danger which hangs over us - not passion - not party; but the settled, selfish purpose which alone can sustain and probably will not abandon the movement. That upon which it originally rested has long since passed away. It is no longer the clamor of a noisy fanaticism, but the steady advance of a self-sustaining power to the goal of unlimited supremacy. This is the crevasse which the Senator described - a crevasse which he figuratively says is threatening submersion to the whole estate, while the owners are quarrelling about the division of its profits. Yes, sir, a moral crevasse has occurred: fanaticism and ignorance - political rivalry - sectional hate - strife for sectional dominion, have accumulated into a mighty flood, and pour their turgid waters through the broken constitution, threatening not total submersion, but only the destruction of a part of the estate - that part in which my constituency, as well as that of the Senator, is found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Download or read book Speech of Mr Davis of Mississippi on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories 13 14 February 1850 written by Jefferson Davis and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Senator Davis, future President of the Confederacy, speech made while a member of Congress. Responds to resolutions introduced by Senator Henry Clay pertaining to the Compromise of 1850. Davis asks, ...is there such incompatibility of interest between the two sections of this country that they cannot profitable live together? Does the agriculture of the South injure the manufactures of the North? On the other hand are they not their life-blood?
Download or read book Speech of Mr Davis of Mississippi on the Subject of Slavery in the Territories Delivered in the Senate of the United States February 13 14 1850 written by Jefferson Davis and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-09-07 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Speech of Hon Jefferson Davis of Mississippi written by Jefferson 1808-1889 Davis and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally delivered in 1850, this speech by future Confederate president Jefferson Davis defends the institution of slavery and calls for its expansion into the western territories. Davis argues that slavery is a constitutional right and accuses anti-slavery politicians of seeking to destroy the Union. This speech provides insight into the deep divisions that would eventually lead to the Civil War. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Speech of Hon Jefferson Davis of Mississippi written by Jefferson 1808-1889 Davis and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally delivered in 1850, this speech by future Confederate president Jefferson Davis defends the institution of slavery and calls for its expansion into the western territories. Davis argues that slavery is a constitutional right and accuses anti-slavery politicians of seeking to destroy the Union. This speech provides insight into the deep divisions that would eventually lead to the Civil War. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book Speech of Jefferson Davis of Mississippi on the Oregon Bill written by Jefferson Davis and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speech of Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi, on the Oregon Bill: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, July 12, 1848 If the right to migrate with their property to territory belonging to the United States attaches equally to all their citizens; and if, as I have been credibly informed, citizens have migrated with their slaves into Oregon; to pass the bill before us without amendment would be abolition of slavery by the Federal Government. Entertaining this opinion I submitted an amendment to meet the case distinctly and singly. Now, for the first time in our history, has Congress, without the color of compact or compromise, claimed to discriminate in the settlement of Territories against the citizens of one portion of the Union and in favor of another. This, taken in connection with all which is passing around us, must excite the attention of Senators to the fact, and forces on my mind the conclusion that her-in is sought to be established a precedent for future use. Here upon the threshhold we must resist, or forever abandon, the claim to equality of right, and consent to be a marked caste, doomed, in the progress of national growth, to be dwarfed into helplessness and political dependence. As equals the States came into the Union, and, by the articles of confederation, equal rights, privileges, and immunities were secured to the citizens of each; yet, for asserting in this case that the Federal Government shall not authorize the destruction of such equality, we have been accused of wishing to claim for the citizens of the Southern States unusual rights under the Constitution. This accusation comes badly from those who insist on provisions for exclusion; and cannot find its application to a demand that nothing shall be done to affect the constitutional relations of citizens or the constitutional rights of property. We do not ask of the Federal Government to sign new privileges, but to forbear from interfering with existing rights; rights which existed anterior to the formation of the Constitution, -which were recognized in that instrument, and which it is made the duty of the Federal Government, as the agent of our Union, to protect and defend. Such obligations as belong to other species of property, nor more nor less, we claim as due to our property in slaves. Nor can this claim be denied without denying the property-right to which it attaches. This, it has been contended, is the creation of local law, and does not extend beyond the limits for which such laws were made, and, with an air of concession, we are told that it is not proposed to interfere with slavery as it exists in the States, because the Constitution secures it there. Sir, slavery is sustained but was not created by the local law of the States in which it exists; nor did those States ask of the Federal Government to secure or maintain it within their borders; beyond their own jurisdiction, and there only, could the protection of federal laws be required. Before the formation of our confederacy slavery existed in the colonies, now the States of the Union; and but for the Union of the States, would have no legal recognition beyond the limits of the territory of each. But when the fathers of the Republic had achieved its independence, they sought to draw closer the bonds of union, and to remove all cause for discord and contention. For this holy purpose, they met in council, and formed the Constitution under which we live. This compact of union changed the relation of the States to each other in many important particulars, and gave to property and intercourse a national character. Property in persons held to service was recognized; in various and distinct forms it became property under the Constitution of the United States, was made co extensive with the supremacy of the federal laws, its existence subject only to the legislation of sovereign States possessing powers not drawn from, hut above, the Constitution. Thus provision was m.
Download or read book Speeches of the Hon Jefferson Davis of Mississippi written by Jefferson Davis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi: Delivered During the Summer of 1858 IN the Senate of the United States, May 8, 1850, in presenting the Resolutions of the Legislature of Mississippi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
