A Fair Answer to the Confederate Appeal at Richmond (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Granger, Moses Moorhead

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331278856 ISBN 13: 9781331278856

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The president repeated his opinion and statement as to his duty under the fugitive slave law, and plainly made known his intent to maintain the Constitution and laws of the United States in full force throughout all the states, secession being illegal and void. All laws of the United States then in force had been enacted or were approved by a majority of Southern congress men, except the Morrill tariff law. That was passed after the members from South Carolina and the Gulf States had withdrawn. It could not have been passed if they had retained their seats. Its amendment or repeal could be accomplished by the presence of all slave-state congressmen in their seats, as both houses would then have contained a majority of members opposed to a protective tariff.

It is evident that the existence of slavery in the then slave states was then in no peril, unless they should persist in secession and force a war.

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5. That each state was sovereign, and had full right to secede at pleasure, and without cause.

6. That the people in the Free States were very strongly anti-slavery in opinion, and hostile to the South.

What were the actual facts as to each of said claims, up to and in 1860-1861?

The Facts as to Claim One

Every act of Congress as to any territory of the United States passed between March 4, 1789, and March 4, 1861, except that of 1798, organizing Mississippi as a territory, was approved by a president of the United States who was bora in a slave state, was himself a slaveholder, and was popular in and approved by the South, except Presidents Van Buren, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan. The acts passed during the administrations of said four Northern born presidents were approved by the South; Van Buren, Pierce, and Buchanan each received a large majority of the electoral votes of the South. The legislation in President Fillmore's time - the Compromise of 1850 - was approved by the great majority of the representatives of the slave states in the Democratic and Whig national conventions of the year 1852.

From September 9, 1850, until after July 4, 1861, any slaveholder who wished to do so, could take and hold his slaves in any part of the territory organized in 1850 as Utah and New Mexico. This embraced all of what is now Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, also the western half of what is now Colorado, and the southwestern part of what is now Wyoming.

According to the census taken in June, 1860, there were then no slaves in New Mexico, and only 29 in Utah.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331278856
• ISBN 13: 9781331278856
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 40