The Whig Party in Pennsylvania |
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adopted Anti-Masonic party April assembled August ballot bank Bigler bill Buchanan Mss Buckshot War Buren campaign canal commissioner city and county claimed Clay committee Cong Congress Cooper Daily Commercial Journal December declared defeat delegates delphia Demo districts electoral ticket endorsed favor February February 22 free-soil Frémont Fugitive Slave Governor Johnston Harrisburg Harrisburg Telegraph Harrison House Journal Ibid issue January July June Lancaster legislature letter majority March March 14 mass meeting Muhlenberg national convention National Gazette Native American Niles nominated North American November October October 15 October 28 opposed organization Papers Penna Pennsylvania Archives Pennsylvania Intelligencer Pennsylvania Telegraph Phila Philadelphia city Pittsburgh Gazette political Polk Porter President Public Ledger Register repeal Republican resolutions Ritner secured September September 18 Session Laws Shunk tariff of 1842 Taylor Thaddeus Stevens tion Tyler Union United States Gazette vention veto vote Whig candidate Whig party Whigs and Anti-Masons Wilmot Proviso
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Page 194 - ... discountenance all efforts to continue or renew such agitation, whenever, wherever, or however the attempt may be made; and we will maintain this system as essential to the nationality of the Whig party and the integrity of the Union.
Page 255 - April, 1775, was the day of founding the Pennsylvania society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race.
Page 100 - I am in favor of a tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of the government economically administered. In adjusting the details of a revenue tariff, I have heretofore sanctioned such moderate discriminating duties, as would produce the amount of revenue needed, and at the same time afford reasonable incidental protection to our home industry. I am opposed to a tariff for protection merely, and not for revenue.
Page 132 - An act to prevent kidnapping, preserve the public peace, prohibit the exercise of certain powers heretofore exercised by judges, justices of the peace, aldermen and jailors in this commonwealth, and to repeal certain slave laws.
Page 216 - States where it does of may exist, or to exclude any State from admission into the Union, because its constitution does or does not recognize the institution of slavery as a part of its social system ; and expressly pretermitting any expression of opinion upon the power of Congress to establish or prohibit slavery in any...
Page 252 - Vindication of General Washington from the stigma of adherence to Secret Societies. By Joseph Ritner, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; communicated by request of the House of Representatives to that body, on the 8th of March, 1837 ; with the proceedings which took place on its reception, together with a letter to Daniel Webster, and his reply.
Page 31 - ... are embodied in the constitution of the United States. What may it not do? It may reorganize our entire system of social existence, terminating and proscribing what is deemed injurious, and establishing what is preferred. It might restore the institution of slavery among us; it might make our penal code as bloody as that of Draco; it might withdraw the charters of the cities; it might supersede a standing judiciary, by a scheme of occasional arbitration and umpirage; it might prohibit particular...
Page 216 - Congress ought not to legislate upon the subject of Slavery within the Territories of the United States, and that any interference by Congress, with Slavery as it exists in the District of Columbia, would be a violation of the spirit and intention of the compact by which the State of Maryland ceded the District to the United States, and a breach of national faith.
Page 215 - ... the National Council has deemed it the best guarantee of common justice and of future peace, to abide by and maintain the existing laws upon the subject of slavery, as a final and conclusive settlement of that subject, in fact and in substance.
Page 48 - But, fellow citizens, until this investigation be fully made and fairly determined, let us treat the election of the gth inst. as if we had not been defeated, and in that attitude abide the result.