Constitutions | Amendments
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285
Cleveland Morning Leader, 17 February 1864
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285 - L. Feb. 17; ed: 2/1 - Sumner offers the following amendments to the
Constitution of the United States: That Congress he authorized to make
laws to enforce the prohibition of slavery; that representation and
direct taxes shall be apportioned among the states of the Union; to
abolish the provision that a person held to service in one state and
escaping to another state shall by law be returned to the first state.
"We are glad to know that these amendments are to be received by Con- .
gress. Let slavery now receive its quietus." (12)
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*Amendments, Constitutional; *Constitutions; Sumner, Charles; U. S. Congress; U. S. constitution
286
Cleveland Morning Leader, 24 March 1864
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286 - L. Mar. 24; ed: 2/1 - The following joint resolution was submitted
to the legislature: Section 1. Slavery being incompatible with a
free government is forever prohibited in the United States and involun-
tary servitude shall only be permitted as a punishment for crime.
Sec. 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this act.
Indications are that this measure will receive sanction. "The
high tide of freedom is sweeping o'er the land and woe to the man who
attempts to stem its impetuous flood." (6)
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Ohio; U. S. Congress
287
Cleveland Morning Leader, 18 June 1864
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287 - L June 18; ed:2/1 - The recent vote by which the constitutional
amendment was lost, so far as the vote from Ohio is concerned, is one
of the most flagrant outrages that have been perpetrated against the
honor of our state for many years. Fourteen Democratic Congressmen have
decided that the source and strength of the Rebellion shall not be
weakened or extirpated so far as their services can prevent it. The
Democrats in Congress have decided not to allow the people to say whether
they will so amend the constitution as to prevent the reestablishment
of slavery on the soil of the Republic.
"This action of the Democracy in Congress prefigures the action of
the Chicago Convention upon the subject of slavery." (12)
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Chicago, Ill.; Ohio; U. S. Congress
288
Cleveland Morning Leader, 14 December 1864
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288 - L Dec. 14; ed:2/2 - The national boor, Garret Davis of Kentucky,
having abandoned the constitution as it is, propose to amend it, and
has submitted a lot of trash to the U. S. Senate. He proposes that
Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire shall be run into one state, and
Massachusetts. Connecticut, and Rhode Island into another, etc.; that
the President shall be chosen alternately from the free and slave states;
and that no Negro shall be a citizen of the United States.
"In these three years, the nation has ceased to prattle about division
of power between free and slave states, for it has decided that there shall
be no slave st: tes.... Your amendments, Sir, are incoherent murmurings
of a sleeping dotard and should be treated as such. Cease groping for
the relics of a past which can never be resurrected and open your eyes
to the glorious rising sun and be silent." (11)
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Connecticut; Davis, Garret (Kentucky); Kentucky; Lincoln, Abraham; Maine; Massachusetts; New Hampshire; Rhode Island; U. S. constitution; U. S. Senate; Vermont