| Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1836 - 680 pages
...granted by the Constitution, and that all rights not expressed were reserved by the several states. We have obtained a right to recover our slaves in...may take refuge, which is a right we had not before. In short, considering all circumstances, we have made the best terms for the security of this species... | |
| Samuel Owen - Law - 1847 - 490 pages
...uncJiaritablc to one another in this respect." General Pinckney, in the South Carolina convention, said, " we have obtained a right to recover our slaves in...may take refuge, which is a right we had not before. In short, considering all circumstances, we have made the best terms for the security of this species... | |
| Ohio. General Assembly - 1849 - 1106 pages
...prevent it, this clause is inserted in . the Constitution." To the same purpose, but with more emphasis, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney said to the people of...take refuge, which is a right we had not before." f That the importance of this provision has not been overrated by Southern statesmen, the following... | |
| William Ingersoll Bowditch - Enslaved persons - 1849 - 182 pages
...the South Carolina Convention, expresses his satisfaction at this article of the Constitution : — " We have obtained a right to recover our slaves, in...take refuge, which is a right we had not "before. In short, considering all circumstances, we have made the 134 best terms for the security of this species... | |
| Virginia - Law - 1850 - 304 pages
...CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY said to the people of South Carolina in the convention of that state, " AVe have obtained a right to recover our slaves, in whatever...take refuge, which is a right we had not before." That the importance of this provision has not been overrated by Southern statesmen, the following extract... | |
| 1851 - 408 pages
...Legislature of South Carolina, Charles Cotesworth Pinkney made these remarks : " We have obtained (said he) a right to recover our slaves in whatever part of...may take refuge, which is a right we had not before. In short, considering all the circumstances, we have made the best terras for the security of this... | |
| Wendell Phillips - Constitutional law - 1856 - 220 pages
...granted by the Constitution ; and that . all rights not expressed were reserved by the several States. We have obtained a right to recover our slaves, in...may take refuge, which is a right we had not before. In short, considering all circumstances, we have made the best terms, for the security of this species... | |
| Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...inserted in the Constitution." Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, in the South Carolina Convention, said : — " We have obtained a right to recover our slaves. In...take refuge, which is a right we had not before/' Chief Justice Tilghman, of Pa., in the case of Wright P. Deacon, said : — " Wha lever may be our... | |
| Oliver Lorenzo Barbour, New York (State). Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 718 pages
...1429.) CC Pinckney, in speaking of this provision, says, " We have obtained a Lemmon v. The People. right to recover our slaves, in whatever part of America...take refuge — which is a right we had not before." (16 Peters, 648.) IV. The persons here claimed as slaves, are free by the express enactment of the... | |
| Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 300 pages
...ConHISTORY OF THE slitution, and that all rights not expressed were reserved by the several States. We have obtained a right to recover our slaves in...may take refuge, which is a right we had not before. In short, considering all circumstances, we have made the best terms for the security of this species... | |
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