Andrew Jackson Hamilton
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Excerpt from Speech of Gen. A. J. Hamilton of Texas: At the War Meeting at Faneuil Hall, Saturday Evening, April 18, 1863 Occurred in the National Congress, upon this slavery question, happened in 1820, on the application of Missouri to be taken into the Union as one of the States. She had provided for the existence of slavery in her constitution, and there were those in Congress who did not believe, as the fathers of the government did not believe, that it was a good institution. They believed that the framers of the Constitution, while they permitted the existence of slavery, still did it in such form, and under such circumstances, that those who attempted to follow the lead of the great men engaged in that work might well be justified, under the Constitution and in their own consciences, in resisting any further spread of the institution of slavery. But, it was insisted on the other hand, that Missouri had a right to admission, without reference to that feature in her constitution. It was said, that provision had been made in the Federal Constitution for the introduction of new States. It was replied, that that was true, but there was a condition annexed to that exercise of power by Congress, and that was, that the form of government of the States seeking admission must be Republican, and it was not strictly Republican if the institution of slavery was provided for. To that it was replied, that the argument could not be sound, because States had been admitted with the institution of slavery since the adoption of the Federal Constitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.