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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 2: (search)
guage conferred upon the first settlers the power to abolish slavery, still, according to its very terms, it was subject to the Constitution of the United States, and like all other laws it would be void if in conflict with this Constitution. What tribunal was to decide this question? Certainly the Supreme Court. Indeed the law itself had, in express terms, recognized this, by prescribing the appropriate method of bringing the question before that Court. After the Court, therefore, in March, 1857, had decided the question against their ideas of Territorial sovereignty, they ought to have yielded. They ought to have acquiesced in the doctrine that property, including that in slaves, as well in the Territories as in the States, is placed under the protection of the Constitution, and that neither a Territorial Legislature nor Congress possesses the power to impair or destroy it. This decision ought surely to have ended the question; but not so. Instead of this, the Douglas Democr
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 13: (search)
t, in his message already referred to, justly observes, that the appearance of so large a force, fitted out in such a prompt manner, in the far distant waters of the La Plata, and the admirable conduct of the officers and men employed in it, have had a happy effect in favor of our country throughout all that remote portion of the world. The Mexican Republic and the Monroe doctrine. The relations of the United States with Mexico on the accession of Mr. Buchanan to the Presidency in March, 1857, were of an unfriendly and almost hostile character. That Republic had been in a state of constant revolution ever since it achieved its independence from Spain. The various constitutions adopted from time to time had been set at naught almost as soon as proclaimed; and one military leader after another, in rapid succession, had usurped the government. This fine country, blessed with a benign climate, a fertile soil, and vast mineral resources, was reduced by civil war and brigandage t
The Daily Dispatch: December 27, 1860., [Electronic resource], Yield of gold in Australia. (search)
Yield of gold in Australia. --From 1851 to 1859, inclusive, the yield of the Victoria gold fields, Australia, amounted to £87,045,000. The annual reports showed a diminution in the yield from 1856, although the number of gold-seekers has been on the increase, and the use of steam engines and other machinery has been introduced on an enormous scale. In March, 1857, there were at the mines 62,211 male Europeans, of whom 9,035 were miners; in December, 1859, there were 100,591 Europeans, of whom 15,342 were miners.
The Daily Dispatch: December 28, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 11 (search)
xico, in place of General Logan, who declined, was formerly a member of Congress from the Dayton district in Ohio. The following is a brief sketch of his life: "He was born in Franklin, Warren county, Ohio, August 9th, 1811. He was originally a printer, and many years an associate editor of the Cincinnati Gazette. Subsequently he studied law, which profession he practiced until he was elected to Congress in 1848. He served in the House of Representatives from December, 1849, until March, 1857. In the memorable session of 1855-'6, when it took the House more than two months to elect a speaker, Mr. Campbell was the caucus nominee of the Republican party, and received their votes as long as there was any chance for his election. They subsequently nominated and elected Mr. Banks under a "plurality" rule, adopted for the occasion. In that Congress Mr. Campbell was Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means, and acquitted himself with great credit. He is a man of considerable abi
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