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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE WASHINGTON PEACE CONFEK- ENCE. The Peace Conference consisted of commissioners from different States, assembled at Washington, in February, 1861, on the invitation of Virginia, with the view of adjusting, if possible, the controversy between the States respecting slavery. The commissioners from New York were David Dudley Field, William Curtis Noyes, John A. King, James T. Wadsworth, Amariah B. James, James C. Smith, Francis Granger, Erastus Corning, Greene C. Bronson, John E. Wool, and William E. Dodge. A committee of one from each State was appointed by the Conference, to which were referred the resolutions of the State of Virginia and the other States represented, and all propositions for the adjustment of the difficulties between States, with authority to report what might be necessary to restore harmony and preserve the Union. Mr. Field was placed upon the committee. On the 16th of February a majority of the committee reported several amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the general design of which was to fortify slavery. Mr. Field dissented, and on the 20th of February, 1861, spoke as follows: The questions now before the Conference I suppose arise upon the report presented by the majority of the committee, and upon the motion to substitute for that report the propositions of the minority of the same committee. I propose to add to this report the three following propositions; and I will read them for the information of the Conference: I. Each State has the sole and exclusive right, according to its own judgment, to order and direct its domestic institutions, and to determine for itself what shall be the relation to each other of all persons residing or being within its limits. II. Congress shall provide by law for securing to the cit...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217558631
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 190
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217558631
  • Publisher Date: 07 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 349 gr


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