 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 688 pages
...qualified by law to act on this subject. These colored persons were not only included in the body of "the people of the United States," by whom the Constitution was ordained and established, but in at least five of the States they had the power to act, and doubtless did act, by their suffrages,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...qualified by law to act on this subject. These colored persons were not only included in the body of "the people of the United States," by whom the Constitution was ordained and established, but in at least five of the States they had the power to act, and doubtless did act, by their suffrages,... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 254 pages
...qualified by law to act on this subject. These colored -persons were not only included in the body of "the people of the United States," by whom the Constitution was ordained and established, but in at least five of the States they had the power to act, and doubtless did act, by their suffrages,... | |
 | William Goodell - Slavery - 1857 - 80 pages
...black men and laborers upon plantations. Nor should we be betrayed into the absurdity of holding that the " people of the United States," by whom the Constitution was " ordained and established," are entitled to none of its safeguards of personal freedom, while, in the same breath, we were loudly... | |
 | William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...qualified by law to act on the subject. These colored persons were not only included in the body of ' the people of the United States/ by whom the Constitution was ordained and established, but in at least five of the states, they had the power to act, and, doubtless, did act, by their suifrages,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - 1864 - 544 pages
...qualified by law to act on the subject. These colored persons were not only included in the body of 'the people of the United States,' by whom the Constitution was ordained and established ; but in at least five of the States they had the power to act, and, doubtless, did act, by their suffrages,... | |
 | Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...qualified by law to act on the subject. These colored persons were not only included in the body of ' the people of the United States,' by whom the Constitution was ordained and established ; but in at least five of the States they had the power to act, and, doubtless, did act, by their suffrages,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Presidents - 1865 - 912 pages
...qualified by law to act on the subject. These colored persons were not only included in the body of ' the people of the United States,' by whom the Constitution was ordained and established ; but in at least five of the States they had the power to act, and, doubtless, did act, by their suffrages,... | |
 | John Hancock - African Americans - 1865 - 52 pages
...those qualified by law to act on the subject. The colored persons were not only included in the body of the people of the United States, ' by whom the Constitution was ordained and established,' but in at least five of the States they had the power to act, and doubtless did act, by their suflerages,... | |
 | Joseph Hartwell Barrett - Biography & Autobiography - 1865 - 878 pages
...qualified by law to act on the subject. These colored persons were not only included in the body of ' the people of the United States,' by whom the Constitution was ordained and established ; but in at least five of the States they had the pqwer to act, and, doubtless, did act, by their suffrages,... | |
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States' by whom the Constitution was ordained and established; but in at least five of the States they had the power to act, and doubtless did act, by their suffrages, upon the question of its adoption. 
