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James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 2: (search)
ctional, and was confined to the States north of Mason and Dixon's line. The Kansas and Nebraska Act had referred all constitutional questions respecting slavery in the Territories, to the Supreme Court of the United States. It accordingly furnished the necessary facilities for bringing cases involving title to slaves, or the question of personal freedom, before that tribunal. At the period of Mr. Buchanan's inauguration a case was pending before that Court (Dred Scott v. Sandford, 19 Howard's Reports, p. 393) involving all the contested questions in regard to slavery. This, at the time, presented to him a cheerful but delusive prospect. He confidently expected that the decision of the Court would settle all these questions and eventually restore harmony among the States. Accordingly, in his Inaugural Address, he had declared that to this decision, whatever it might be, he should, in common with all good citizens, cheerfully submit. This was his imperative duty. Our free fo
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 3: (search)
ention, as to the best mode of restoring harmony. Page 136. In consequence Mr. Howard, of Tennessee, stated to the Convention that he had a proposition to present They believed that the resolution just read by the gentleman from Tennessee [Mr. Howard] presented a reasonable basis of settlement among all parties, North and Sout event this would have been both for the Democratic party and the country! Mr. Howard, however, in vain attempted to obtain a vote on his resolution. When he move upon it either at Charleston or Baltimore. Before the balloting commenced Mr. Howard succeeded, in the face of strong opposition, with the aid of the thirty-five itably be elected. Immediately after the reorganization of the Convention, Mr. Howard, of Tennessee, offered a resolution, that the President of this Convention didified on motion of Mr. Gilmore, of Pennsylvania, as a substitute for that of Mr. Howard, to refer the credentials of all persons claiming seats in this Convention, m
James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion, Chapter 8: (search)
e rendered inevitable. This had become the more necessary as Congress would soon expire, and the new Congress could not be convened for a considerable period after the old one had ceased to exist, because a large portion of the Representatives had not then been elected. These reasons, however, produced no effect. The President's special message Con. Globe, p. 316. was referred, two days after its date (10th January), by the House of Representatives to a special committee, of which Mr. Howard, of Michigan, was chairman. Nothing was heard from this committee for the space of twenty days. They then, on the 30th January, through Mr. John H. Reynolds, of New York, one of its members, reported a bill Ibid., p. 645, bills of H. R., No. 698 enabling the President to call forth the militia or to accept the services of volunteers for the purpose of protecting the forts, magazines, arsenals, and other property of the United States; and to recover possession of such of these as has be