 The recent legislation of Congress respecting domestic slavery, derived as it has been from the original and pure fountain of legitimate political power, the will of the majority, promises ere long to allay the dangerous excitement. This legislation is...  Stephen A. Douglas: a Study in American Politics - Page 277by Allen Johnson - 1908 - 503 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1849 - 1012 pages
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | Books - 1849 - 980 pages
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | History - 1849 - 982 pages
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | History, Modern - 1849 - 620 pages
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1849 - 796 pages
...in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and 1 exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the peopJe of these Territories •will... | |
 | Thomas Butler King - California - 1850 - 94 pages
...in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and 11 exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits." The people of California, therefore, acting in conformity with the views thus expressed, and what seemed... | |
 | John Howard Hinton - United States - 1850 - 1008 pages
...assembled in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 766 pages
...assembled in Convention to form State Constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves, whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits."* Mr. King states that the date of his arrival at San Francisco was on the morning of the fourth of June.... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Presidents - 1850 - 412 pages
.... in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves •whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these Territories will... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...assembled in Convention to form State Constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves, whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits."* Air. King states that the date of his arrival at San Francisco was on the morning of the fourth of... | |
| |
