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Utah (Utah, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
nvoluntary servitude, otherwise than in punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and are hereby, prohibited: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any State or Territory of the United States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the persons claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid. Under this section, as in the case of the Mexican law in New Mexico and Utah, it is a disputed point whether Slavery is prohibited in the Nebraska country by valid enactment. The decision of this question involves the constitutional power of Congress to pass laws prescribing and regulating the domestic institutions of the various Territories of the Union. In the opinion of those eminent statesmen who hold that Congress is invested with no rightful authority to legislate upon the subject of Slavery in the territories, the 8th section of the act preparatory to the adm
Andrew (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
Oregon; the other southwestward to Salt Lake, the Humboldt, and California. The western boundary of Missouri was originally a line drawn due north as well as south from the point where the Kansas or Kaw river enters the Missouri; but in 1836 a considerable section lying west of this line, and between it and the Missouri, was quietly detached from the unorganized territory aforesaid and added to the State of Missouri, forming in due time the fertile and populous counties of Platte, Buchanan, Andrew, Holt, Nodaway, and Atchison, which contained in 1860 70,505 inhabitants, of whom 6,699 were slaves. This conversion of Free into Slave territory, in palpable violation of the Missouri Compromise, was effected so dexterously and quietly as to attract little or no public attention. At the first session of the XXXIId Congress (1851-2) petitions were presented for a territorial organization of the region westward of Missouri and Iowa; but no action was had thereon until the next session, wh
Missouri (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
zed territory aforesaid and added to the State of Missouri, forming in due time the fertile and popme a State--lies immediately west of the State of Missouri. It is only a question of time, whetherthat portion of Kansas which adjoins the State of Missouri, and, in fact, nearly all the accessibleg or meetings intended to establish a sort of Missouri preemption upon all this region. Among the r legal, while 1,729 were cast by residents of Missouri. At one poll, known as 110, 604 votes were c David R. Atchison, then a U. S. Senator from Missouri, in a speech in Platte County, Mo., a few weeinstitutions. Should each county in the State of Missouri only do its duty, the question will be d at the ballot-box. If we are defeated, then Missouri and the other Southern States will have shown elected to the Legislature were residents of Missouri at the time. These details might be continueohn Sherman, of Ohio, and Mordecai Oliver, of Missouri, who immediately proceeded to Kansas, and the[38 more...]
South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
rginia; Pratt, of Maryland; Badger, of North Carolina; Butler and Evans, of South Carolina; Dawson, of Georgia; Fitzpatrick and C. C. Clay, of Alabama; Adams and Brownks, Jr., of Massachusetts, received 103 votes to 100 for William Aiken, of South Carolina, and 11 scattering. It was thereupon resolved — Yeas 155, Nays 40--that Mrm Alabama, at the head of a regiment of wild young men, mainly recruited in South Carolina and Georgia. They came in military array, armed, and with the avowed purpoMiller prisoner, and, finding that he was a Free-State man, and a native of South Carolina, they gravely tried him for treason to his native State! He was found guilrder, were on hand; among them, Col. Titus, from Florida, Col. Wilkes, from South Carolina, Gen. String-fellow, a Virginian, Col. Boone, hailing from Westport, and ma2d of February; all the States represented but Maine, Vermont, Georgia, and South Carolina. An American National Council (secret) had met three days before in the sa
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
y 2, 1853. a bill organizing the Territory of Nebraska (covering the same district); which bill, bei. to the Senate a bill to organize the Territory of Nebraska, embracing (as before) the region lyingion. Instead of one Territory, to be called Nebraska, and stretching from the parallel of 36° 30! ther to comprise the residue, and be known as Nebraska. (The south line of Kansas was moved northwaavery within the Territories to be organized--Nebraska and Kansas. So far as I am individually concrth Carolina, during the debate on the Kansas-Nebraska bill, if I should choose to emigrate to Kansavery few days after the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska act, hundreds of leading Missourians crossed omely, by a circuitous route through Iowa and Nebraska; but who, on entering Kansas, were met by a Fsouri Compromise by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill. Those, of whatever party in the past, d on the table, by 141 votes to 59. The anti-Nebraska delegates, to the number of about fifty, ther[10 more...]
Illinois (Illinois, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
on Territories, Mr. William A. Richardson, of Illinois, from said Committee, reported February 2,, I acknowledge now that, as the Senator from Illinois well knows, when I came to this city, at the ee on Territories; from which Mr. Douglas, of Illinois, reported January 4, 1854. it with amendmeth the amendment reported by the Senator from Illinois, and which has been incorporated into the bilme, has been incorporated by the Senator from Illinois into the bill which he has reported to the Seble to do so, aid and assist the Senator from Illinois, and others who are anxious to carry through by the amendment reported by the Senator from Illinois, from the Committee on Territories, of which ; Pettit, of Indiana; Douglas and Shields, of Illinois; Dodge (A. C.) and Jones, of Iowa; Walker, ofported January 31st. by Mr. Richardson, of Illinois, from the Committee on Territories, Mr. Engliich voted alone for Mr. Fillmore. New Jersey, Illinois, and California, gave each a plurality only, [1 more...]
Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
--The Senator entirely mistakes our position, responded Mr. Wade, of Ohio. We have not the least objection, and would oppose no obstacle, to th, of Connecticut; Fish and Seward, of New York; Chase and Wade, of Ohio; Dodge (Henry), of Wisconsin--10. Nays — Norris and Williams, of e time, effected. Wilson Shannon, Elected Democratic Governor of Ohio over Thomas Corwin, in 1842, of Ohio, was appointed in his stead. OOhio, was appointed in his stead. On his way to Kansas, he stopped at Westport, Mo., the headquarters of border ruffianism, and made a speech to those who crowded about him. In composed of Messrs. William A. Howard, of Michigan, John Sherman, of Ohio, and Mordecai Oliver, of Missouri, who immediately proceeded to Kans on the first ballot, receiving 359 votes to 196 for John McLean, of Ohio. Willam L. Dayton, of New Jersey, received 259 votes on the informa York by a plurality of 80,000, with the six New England States, and Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa--giving Gen. Fremont 114 electoral vo
Missouri River (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
led himself; while his brother, who aided him in his defense, had his arm shattered by a bullet. Phillips's house was burned, with several others, and every known Free-State man put on board a steamboat and sent down the river. It was boasted by the Missouri journals that not a single abolition vote was cast at that election! Meantime, the emigrants flocking to Kansas from the Free States were arrested on their passage through Missouri and turned back: cannon being planted along the Missouri river to stop the ascending steamboats for this purpose. Not many of these emigrants were actually plundered, save of their passage-money, which was in no case returned. A large party was finally made up of those whose progress to their intended homes had been thus obstructed, who proceeded thither slowly and toil-somely, by a circuitous route through Iowa and Nebraska; but who, on entering Kansas, were met by a Federal military force, and all their arms taken from them. Yet the immigrati
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
f Florida; Houston and Rusk, of Texas; Dixon, of Kentucky; Bell and Jones, of Tennessee; Atchison, of Missouri; Sebastian and Johnson, of Arkansas; Gwin and Weller, March 3d.--or rather, morning — passed: Yeas 37; Nays Messrs. Bell, of Tennessee, Houston, of Texas, and Walker, of Wisconsin, who had voted against Mr. Chase--John S. Millson--1. North Carolina.--Richard C. Puryear, Sion H. Rogers--2. Tennessee.--Robert M. Bugg, William Cullom, Emerson Etheridge, Nathaniel G. Taylor--4. ho so voted, but two Messrs. Puryear, of North Carolina, and Etheridge, of Tennessee. were returned to the next House. The bill had thus passed the House in fominated. On the first ballot for Vice-President, Andrew Jackson Donelson, of Tennessee, received 181 votes to 24 scattering, and was unanimously nominated. The ntance. Frederick P. Stanton, for ten years a representative in Congress from Tennessee, was associated with him as Secretary. Meantime, the double-headed action
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): chapter 17
itorial organization of the region westward of Missouri and Iowa; but no action was had thereon until the next session, whenposition as the Senator from Texas now is. The Senator from Iowa [Mr. A. C. Dodge] knows it; and it was for reasons I will nlaced me here may be assured. Mr. Augustus C. Dodge, of Iowa, submitted Dec. 14, 1853. to the Senate a bill to organiacing (as before) the region lying westward of Missouri and Iowa, which was referred to the Committee on Territories; from won the north, and from the western boundary of Missouri and Iowa on the east to the crests of the Rocky Mountains on the wesuglas and Shields, of Illinois; Dodge (A. C.) and Jones, of Iowa; Walker, of Wisconsin; Hunter and Mason, of Virginia; Prattither slowly and toil-somely, by a circuitous route through Iowa and Nebraska; but who, on entering Kansas, were met by a Fe six New England States, and Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Iowa--giving Gen. Fremont 114 electoral votes. Mr. Buchanan car
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