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Great Debates in American History: Slavery from 1790 to 1857 - Page 363
edited by - 1913
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 21

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1862 - 914 pages
...Chicago platform, which denies " the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States;" meaning, of course, any of the present territory, in which no existing local law authorizes it. How,...
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The Church

1862
...attempts to violate it ; and we deny the authority of Congress, or a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United Statet," This is a plain avowal that slavery is not national according to the Constitution, and that...
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The Life, Explorations, and Public Services of John Charles Fremont

Charles Wentworth Upham - 1856 - 132 pages
...Slavery in the Territories of the United States by positive legislation, prohibiting its existence or extension therein. That we deny the authority of Congress,...while the present Constitution shall be maintained. That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the Territories of the United States...
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The Republican Scrap Book: Containing the Platformsand a Choice Selection of ...

Campaign literature - 1856 - 80 pages
...of establishing slavery in the United States by positive legislation, prohibiting its existence or extension therein; that we deny the authority of Congress,...individual or association of individuals, to give legal assistance to slavery in any Territory vf the United States, while the present Constitution shall be...
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The Life of Thomas Morris: Pioneer and Long a Legislator of Ohio, and U. S ...

Benjamin Franklin Morris - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 420 pages
...of establishing slavery in the United States, by positive legislation, prohibiting its existence or extension therein. That we deny the authority of Congress,...individual or association of individuals, to give legal assistance to slavery in any Territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be...
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Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Frémont ...

John Bigelow - California - 1856 - 502 pages
...therein; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, of any individual or any association of individuals, to give legal existence...while the present Constitution shall be maintained. u 3. Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of...
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The Republican Scrap Book: Containing the Platforms, and a Choice Selection ...

Campaign literature - 1856 - 88 pages
...of establishing slavery in the United States by positive legislation, prohibiting its existence or extension therein ; that we deny the authority of...individual or association of individuals, to give legal assistance to slavery in any Territory of the United Slates, while the present Constitution shall be...
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Speech on [i.e. Of] Hon. Wm. Barksdale, of Mississippi, on the Presidential ...

William Barksdale - Campaign literature - 1856 - 32 pages
...purpose of establishing slavery in the United States by positive legislation prohibiting its existence or extension therein. "That we deny the authority of...of any individual or association of individuals, to t;ive leg-il existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States, while th^ present constitution...
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Wells' National Hand-book: Embracing Numerous Invaluable Documents Connected ...

John G. Wells - Politicians - 1856 - 156 pages
...of establishing slavery in the United States by positive legislation, prohibiting its existence or extension therein. That we deny the authority of Congress,...territorial legislature, of any individual or association, or individuals, to give legal assistance to slavery in any territory of the United States, while the...
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The Criterion: Which Exhibits Portraits of the Three Candidates, Facts in ...

Campaign literature - 1856 - 54 pages
...Slavery in any territory of the United States, by positive legislation prohibiting its existence or extension therein. That we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, of any indivi ual or association of individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any territory of the...
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