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Report of the Case of Edward Prigg Against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... - Page 92
by Edward Prigg, Richard Peters - 1842 - 140 pages
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The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States ..., Volume 3

United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 968 pages
...Such an inference was founded on a view which was altogether erroneous of the operation of the first clause of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States, assuring a reciprocity of privileges to the citizens of the several States, respectively. That...
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Documents Accompanying the Journal ..., Part 1

Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1841 - 632 pages
...propositions; but they, with due deference, insist that he is clearly wrong in the last. That the second clause of the second section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States, is not a mere recognition, but an extension of the principle of the law of nations, relating...
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Documents Communicated to the Senate and House of Representatives ..., Volume 1

Michigan. Legislature - Administrative agencies - 1841 - 630 pages
...propositions; but they, with due deference, insist that he is clearly wrong in the last. That the second clause of the second section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States, is not a mere recognition, but an extension of the principle of the law of nations, relating...
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Laws of the State of New York

New York (State) - Session laws - 1842 - 486 pages
...the jurisdiction and against the laws of Virginia, is not a felony or other crime within the meaning of the second section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States : Resolved, That, in the opinion of this legislature, stealing a slave within the jurisdiction...
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Laws of the State of New York, Volume 1

New York (State) - Law - 1842 - 488 pages
...jurisdic- • tion and against the laws of Virginia, is not a felony or other crime within the meaning of the second section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States: Resolved, That in the opinion of this legislature, stealing a slave within the jurisdiction...
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Manual for the Use of the Convention to Revise the Constitution of the State ...

New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1846 - 410 pages
...provided, that nothing in this constitution shall be construed to conflict with the provisions of the first clause of the second section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States. Second, To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, and to abstain from all...
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The United States Democratic Review, Volume 18

United States - 1846 - 500 pages
...nothing in this Constitution shall he construed to conflict with the provisions of the first clanse of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States." It is fortunate for the credit of the Convention, that the above section, with its limitation,...
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The American's Own Book: Or, The Constitutions of the Several States in the ...

John Bigelow - Constitutions - 1848 - 538 pages
...that nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to conflict 'with the provisions of the first clause of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States. Second, To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, and to abstain from all...
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Report of the Debates in the Convention of California on the Formation of ...

John Ross Browne - Constitutional conventions - 1850 - 538 pages
...Provided, That nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to conflict with the provisions of the first clause of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States. Mr. MCCAHVER said : On yesterday evening after I had presented the first clause of the article...
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Slavery: Letters and Speeches

Horace Mann - Slavery - 1851 - 592 pages
...escaped or escaping slave may be recaptured and redelivered into bondage. Such is the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States. Such, too, is the act of Congress of February 12, 1793, providing for the recapture of fugitive...
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