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" We have obtained a right to recover our slaves in whatever part of America they 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 of property it... "
Report of the Case of Edward Prigg Against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ... - Page 114
by Edward Prigg, Richard Peters - 1842 - 140 pages
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The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of ..., Volume 4

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...
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The New-York Legal Observer, Volume 5

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...
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Documents, Messages and Other Communications, Made to ..., Volume 13, Parts 1-2

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...
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Slavery and the Constitution

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...
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Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia

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...
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The Yale Literary Magazine, Volume 16

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...
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The Constitution a Pro-slavery Compact: Or, Extracts from the Madison Papers ...

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...
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The Political Text-book, Or Encyclopedia: Containing Everything Necessary ...

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...
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Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the ..., Volume 26

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...
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History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue

Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1859 - 292 pages
...ConHISTORY OF THE stitution, and that all rights not,. expressed were reserved by the several States. 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 best terms for the security of this species...
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