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Contributor: Gardiner, Oliver Cromwell
Date: 1848

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Image 9 of The great issue: THE GREAT ISSUE: THE THREE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES; A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE FREE SOIL QUESTION IN THE UNITED STATES, FROM THE CONGRESSES OF 1774 AND 87 TO THE PRESENT TIME. BY...

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Date: 1848

Image 10 of The great issue: «V0 Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1818, BY W. C. BRYANT CO., In the Clerk s Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New- York.

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Date: 1848

Image 11 of The great issue: PREFATORY NOTE. It is the aim of the following pages to show that two moral questions of great and vital importance are connected with this Presidential contest. With respect to these, a...

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Date: 1848

Image 12 of The great issue: 4 PREFATORY NOTE. State organizations have been formed in all of the free, and in some of the slave states and over nearly all the Union, free soil associations and the most...

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Date: 1848

Image 13 of The great issue: CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. The years 1846 7 and 8 memorable events in this country treaties of govern- ment since 46 their result. Revolutions in Europe their extent and causes reform in the...

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Date: 1848

Image 14 of The great issue: 6 CONTENTS. it slavery finally prohibited and taxed first Congress under the Constitution sanc- tions the ordinance of 1787 how many members of the Convention approved it in different forms of official...

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Image 15 of The great issue: CHAPTER I. LATE FOREIGN EVENTS OUR CONFEDERACY THE PRESENT CRISIS TWO MORAL POINTS INVOLVED MORAL POINTS, HOW VIEWED. The years 46, 7 and 8 have already become memorable in his- tory. Into...

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Date: 1848

Image 16 of The great issue: 8 LATE FOREIGN EVENTS. In the old world, events still more striking, and of profounder issues, have crowded these calenders. The last strongholds of feudalism, as if by the decay of time,...

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Image 17 of The great issue: LATE FOREIGN EVENTS. 9 had become one of the most perplexing questions in parliamen- tary legislation. But with famine, decimating suffering and dis- tracted Ireland, with scarcity threatening a like calamity to...

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Date: 1848

Image 18 of The great issue: 10 LATE FOREIGN EVENTS. freedom, this sentiment became a mighty impulse, and like elec- tric fire passed into every mind, and what before were dreamy visions, now became joyful reality. Following the...

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Image 19 of The great issue: LATE FOREIGN EVENTS. H from the banditti or prisons. There could be no trial but by secret and special commission. The common law was a dead letter. In every department there was...

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Image 20 of The great issue: 12 LATE FOREIGN EVENTS. dom had taken too deep a hold in the hearts of the people to be checked by either. The states of the Church, Sardinia, and Tus- cany, now...

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Image 21 of The great issue: LATE FOREIGN EVENTS. 13 ened the national heart as to renew her life and spirit in every extremity of her domain, from the Alpine border to the Sicilian shore. If we follow...

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Image 22 of The great issue: 14 LATE FOREIGN EVENTS. royalists, the policy of both towards the people was now radically changed. Guizot was educated a Protestant, a man of marked eminence, of great purity and integrity of...

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Date: 1848

Image 23 of The great issue: LATE FOREIGN EVENTS. 15 States. If it fail, it will be in the practical operation of its ma- chinery. It provides executive, legislative, and judicial autho- rity, but one elective assembly. It...

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Image 24 of The great issue: 16 LATE FOREIGN EVENTS. world, with its Senate, Assembly, and Regent the Congress and Executive of its United States and Kingdoms. The news ot the revolution at Paris ran like a current...

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Image 25 of The great issue: LATE FOREIGN EVENTS. 17 been held sacred by the lowes t orders of men. The intrigues of ambition, the blindness of theorists, and the power of factions have all set strongly against...

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Image 26 of The great issue: 18 OUR CONFEDERACY. relation as a federative system, is one of which we may well be proud in its analogy to the systems of modern Europe, or of ancient times. It is...

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Image 27 of The great issue: OUR CONFEDERACY. 19 was no third power to balance the weaker against the stronger. There was no appropriate separation of power the legislative from the executive, and both of these from the...

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Date: 1848

Image 28 of The great issue: 20 THE PRESENT CRISIS. at hand when at the seat of our sovereignty the ballot-box we are to say whether or not, in view of her recent struggles for freedom, we will...

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Date: 1848

Image 29 of The great issue: MORAL POINTS INVOLVED. 21 of the soil of America. And these great moral points are, first, Shall we, in view of these struggles of all Europe, with our model before them, renounce...

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Date: 1848

Image 30 of The great issue: 22 EARLY LEGISLATION ON SLAVERY. the language of the constitution itself. The old men of the Rev- olution were opposed, in their very nature, to every form of op- pression. This great...

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Date: 1848

Image 31 of The great issue: CONGRESSES OF 1774, 84, 87. 23 presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine our- selves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance...

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Image 32 of The great issue: 24 EARLY LEGISLATION ON SLAVERY. shire Province, in 1629 Maryland in 1632 Rhode Island in 1644; the Carolinas and Connecticut in 1662; New York and New Jersey in 1664 Pennsylvania and Delaware...

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Date: 1848

Image 33 of The great issue: CONGRESSES OF 1774, 84, 87. 25 At the age of 32, Mr. Jefferson drew the Declaration of Inde- pendence. In the original draft occurred the following thrilling indictment against the British king...

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Image 34 of The great issue: 26 EARLY LEGISLATION ON SLAVERY. them, there existed the same opposition to all oppression and slavery. When five years of the war had elapsed the country was already oppressed with a heavy...

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Image 35 of The great issue: CONGRESSES OF 1774, 84, 87. 27 of crimes, whereof the party shall have been convicted to have been personally- guilty. The vote on the question of its adoption was as follows T...

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Image 36 of The great issue: 28 EARLY LEGISLATION ON SLAVERY. And who were these men who supported this prohibition of slavery at this early day If we include Mr. Chase, there were five at least, Jefferson, Sherman,...

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Image 37 of The great issue: CONGRESSES OF 1774, 84, 87. 29 The first clause of this ordinance of 87, defines the jurisdiction of the government established. The second is an act of direct legislation upon the persons...

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Image 38 of The great issue: 30 EARLY LEGISLATION ON SLAVERY. Art. 6th. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been...

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Date: 1848

Image 39 of The great issue: CONGRESSES OF 1774, 84, 87. 31 and of the Congress of 74, which had already spoken so emphati- cally on the subject of slavery. As framers of the Constitution, Charles Pinckney, and...

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Image 40 of The great issue: 32 EARLY LEGISLATION ON SLAVERY. shall be laid by the Legislature on articles exported from any State nor on the migration or importation of such persons as the several States shall think...

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Date: 1848

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