Report of the Select Committee on Emancipation and Colonization : with an Appendix |
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Page 4 - of the following joint resolution : " Resolved, That the United States ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid to be used by such State in its discretion to
Page 11 - if resistance continues the war must also continue, and it is impossible to foresee all the incidents which may attend and all the ruin which may follow it. Such as may seem indispensable or may obviously promise great efficiency towards ending the struggle must and will come.
Page 38 - of America in Congress assembled, That the United States ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be
Page 5 - it is impossible to foresee all the incidents which may attend, and all the ruin which may follow it, such as may seem indispensable or may obviously promise great efficiency towards ending the struggle must and will come.
Page 38 - by such State in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system. Approved April 10, 1862. No.
Page 34 - enacted by the Senate and House of Bepresentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied that any
Page 45 - it cannot much longer continue that two-thirds will passively submit to the universal domination of this one-third. And it is notorious that the only progress made in territorial domain in, the last three centuries by the whites has been a usurpation and encroachment on the rights and native soil of some of the colored races.
Page 34 - That whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied that any one of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, or Missouri shall have emancipated the slaves therein
Page 45 - We have, then, inherent traits, attributes, so to speak, and native characteristics peculiar to, our race, whether pure or mixed blood, and all that is required of us is to cultivate these and develop them in their purity, to make them desirable and emulated by the rest of the world.
Page 39 - shall have been received, said bonds so received by said State shall at once be null and void in whosesoever hands they may be, and such State shall refund to the United States all interest which may have been paid on such bonds.