Book/Printed Material Horace Mann's letters on the extension of slavery into California and New Mexico: and on the duty of Congress to provide the trial by jury for alleged fugitive slaves. Republished with notes African American Pamphlet Collection copy
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Image 1 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy HORACE MANN'S LETTERS ON THE EXTENSION OF SLAVERY INTO CALIFORNIA AND NEW MEXICO; AND ON THE DUTY OF CONGRESS TO PROVIDE THE TRIAL BY JURY FOR ALLEGED FUGITIVE SLAVES. REPUBLISHED WITH NOTES.]…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 2 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 2 almost double that of the free States, while the population of the free is about double that of the slave; the reasons seem so strong that they can hardly be made…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 3 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 3 Taylor was supposed to be pledged to an opposite course; and hence the struggle. The facts must be so fresh in the recollection of all that they hardly need to be…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 4 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 4 on questions whose frivolousness and vexatiousness cannot be indicated by numbers. The proceedings in the Senate, however, are those which now threaten the most disastrous consequences. Early in the session, in…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 5 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 5 so, but while it will require their joint or concurrent action to abolish the institution, any one of them can preserve it. The laws of the Medes and Persians had no…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 6 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 6 sea at which the oppressor ‘will undo the heavy burdens and let the oppressed go free, and break every yoke,’—to be determined barometrically.” Alas! this cannot be done. Slavery depends, not…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 7 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 7 with their masters that they should be free after serving two years at the mines. We know, too, that the reason assigned for incorporating a provision in the Constitution of California,…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 8 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 8 New England, and known to be the personal friend of Mr. Webster, delivered a speech at Salem, in which the following passage occurs: “It is the passage of a law to…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 9 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 9 voted against the ratification of the treaty, foreseeing the struggle that was to follow. Desperate efforts were made to smuggle in an unrestricted territorial government, against all parliamentary rule and all…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 10 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 10 help to forge it; for oxygen and carbon are divorced. As Massachusetts contributed one-third of the men and one-third of the money, to carry on the Revolutionary War, I am willing…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 11 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 11 Has the South been so generous a co-partner, as to deserve this distinguished token of our gratitude? Why, by parity of reasoning, could he not have claimed all the four States,…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 12 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 12 of freedom before the judicial tribunals, Presto! this free Constitution will be changed into a slave Constitution, under the alleged right of a State to decide upon its own domestic institutions,…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 13 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 13 him, or by his or her agent or attorney, and is brought before such officer under the provisions of the first section of this act. AMENDMENTS Intended to be proposed by…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 14 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 14 and watch Mr. Wilberforce's proceedings, they pensioned the widows of Norris and Green, and voted plate to Mr. Penny, for their exertions in this cause.”— Ibid., page 345. It is said…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 15 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 15 jeopard their pecuniary interests. Should the South succeed in their present attempt upon the territories, they will impatiently await the retirement of Gen. Taylor from the Executive Chair, to add the…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 16 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 16 a supposed case, as in point, if it have any analogy to the matter, would prove that, if Mr. Mann's horse stray into his neighbor's field, he cannot lead him back…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 17 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 17 in all parts of the United States, to deliver any man, woman, or child in the United States, into custody, as a slave, on the strength of an ex parte affidavit,…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 18 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 18 Were I to say that this assertion borders on the incredible, one might well ask, which side of the line does it lie? The provision for a trial by jury, in…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 19 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 19 It is perfectly well known to every student of the Constitution, that the only reason why that instrument did not make express provision for the trial by jury, in civil cases,…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 20 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 20 the time of Magna Charta, and before that time; the practice of the English and of our Colonial and Provincial Courts before the Revolution and during the Confederacy;—in fine, all analogies…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 21 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 21 The last sentence I have underscored. In this sentence, the Supreme Court plainly say, that, if the subject-matter of the litigation, or the object of the proceeding, be to determine a…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 22 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 22 Now, if the Supreme Court of the United States, in construing a law, felt constrained by their oaths to hold the freedom of a man,—of any man, though he might be…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 23 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 23 not the point under discussion. But is it not an implication that binds the legislator, so that when legislating on the subject, he cannot conscientiously and wilfully abandon it without infidelity…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 24 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 24 from Texas, to prove title to his slave in Massachusetts, how infinitely more difficult for a citizen of Massachusetts to prove title to himself in Texas. But Mr. Webster says there…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 25 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 25 Webster has issued, in a pamphlet form, a speech made by him, in the Senate, on the 17th ult., accompanied by his letter to some gentlemen on the Kennebec river, dated…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 26 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 26 not torve, ringi, and so forth; but callide, blande, or blandicule. If captator meant a cavilling, cynical critic, then captatrix should mean a scold, a vixen, or virago; but its true…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 27 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 27 “ordinance of Nature” and the “will of God!” So that, after all, he acknowledges that the “ordinance of Nature” and the “will of God” may be overridden by the laws of…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 28 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 28 the testimony sometimes offered in court, which ruins the cause and dishonors the counsel. 4. MR. WEBSTER'S “DILIGENT READING.” Mr. Webster says, in this letter, “I have studied the geography of…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 29 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 29 South, is conducted solely on the conviction that slavery may exist in the Territories; and that it will or will not exist there, according as the law allows or forbids it.…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 30 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 30 of slaves might be hired out in California, were the whites willing to allow it, at from eight to ten hundred dollars a year. This is pay so much above what…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 31 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 31 In the same speech of December 22, 1845, Mr. Webster spoke as follows: “It may be said that according to the provisions of the Constitution, new States are to be admitted…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 32 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy 32 might not be “entirely accurate,” though he supposed it not to be “materially erroneous.” It is “materially erroneous;” and though one error has been exposed in the Maine papers, he does…- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850
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Image 33 of African American Pamphlet Collection copy- Contributor: Mann, Horace - African American Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1850