But Mrs. Stanton and Frederick Douglass seeing that the power to choose rulers and make laws, was the right by which all others could be secured, persistently advocated the resolution, and at last carried it by a small majority.
Did not our petitions last winter cause a bill for its prohibition to be reported in the Legislature, which was lost in the House by a small majority?
The county went about half and half; both parties, of course, had expected a small majority.
Van Zuylen was assailed in the Second Chamber for his exposing the country to danger and humiliation in this matter; and the Foreign Office vote was rejected by a small majority.
Although the party hostile to the administration had obtained a small majority in one branch of the Legislature several circumstances had concurred to give great weight to the recommendations of Washington.
After a very animated discussion of several days, the question was taken, and the resolution was carried by a small majority.
After a great deal of discussion a vote was passed by a small majority to give the officers half pay for life.
William dissolved parliament, and the new House of Commons, Tory as it was by a small majority, was eager to support the king.
The second reading of the bill was rejected by a small majority, and Gladstone resigned; but, as Disraeli could not form a government, he resumed office.
This bill was opposed by Mr. Douglas; but inasmuch as it gave the people of Kansas the privilege to reject the Lecompton Constitution, it passed by a small majority.
He triumphed by a small majority--indeed the majority was the other way before the people--which shows that Mr. D.
The proposition for a union of the people was lost by a small vote, and the twenty-one years' amendment adopted by a small majority.
A motion was made to solicit the royal assent in an address to her majesty; but the question being put, it was carried in the negative by a small majority.
After the throne had been declared vacant by a small majority of the peers, those who opposed that measure had gradually withdrawn themselves from the house, so that very few remained but such as were devoted to the new monarch.
Notwithstanding their concurrence in parliament, the earl of Melvil procured a small majority.
But it was carried in the negative by a small majority.
The former motion was actually carried against the government by a small majority, but its effect was annulled, and the latter motion was defeated, by a skilful manoeuvre.
When, however, the result was announced, his friends formed only a small majority on the Council.
He was elected by a small majority, during the last few months of a moribund Liberal cabinet.
But though the general assertion of treason was thus made, the Commons, as was not unusual, shrunk from fixing the treason upon any particular person, and each individual accused was acquitted by a small majority.
The country gentlemen came crowding back to town, and, after a violent debate, the Whigs were defeated by a small majority.
This attempt, which, as it superseded the law of the land by an exercise of the power of Parliament, had an unconstitutional and revengeful appearance, met with the strongest opposition, but was carried in the Lower House by a small majority.
The contest was bitter beyond all precedent; but after a hard fight, and by a union of Free Soilers, Democrats, and Independent Whigs, I was elected by a small majority.
Stephens, whose motion to lay it on the table in the House prevailed by a small majority.
The grant met with severe opposition, and was only carried by a small majority; and subsequently several debates took place respecting the establishment at Windsor, the expenses of which excited much freedom of remark.
Mr. Brougham moved that the court-martial held on him was illegal, and the sentence unjust; and it was with great difficulty that ministers could procure a small majority to acquit his judges.
But after a full discussion of the subject, a small majority, of a numerous convention, appeared for its adoption.
At length the question was carried for the constitution by a small majority, and the minority, with that manly condescension which becomes great minds, submitted to the measure, and united to support the government.
A bill founded on this report passed the senate, but was lost, in the house of representatives, by a small majority.
Although the party hostile to the administration had obtained a small majority in one branch of the legislature, several circumstances had occurred to give great weight to the recommendations of the President.
The less violent party carried it by a small majority; but, not thinking themselves authorized to decide for their constituents on so momentous a question, they afterwards resolved that it should be referred to the people.
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