| United States - 1836 - 494 pages
...stern^ stubborn, historical a,ct that at the time of the adoption of the Constitution the freedmen, inhabitants of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and North Carolina, were not only citizens of those States but possessed the franchise of electors on equal terms with... | |
| Literature - 1863 - 640 pages
...black men in our early days: — " At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation all free nativeborn inhabitants of the States of New...Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and South Carolina, thougli descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those States, but... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...Constitution. Of this there can be npjlojibt. At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, all free native-born inhabitants of the States of...descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those States, but such of them as had the other necessary qualifications possessed the franchise... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1857 - 694 pages
...Constitution. Of this there can be no doubt. At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, all free native-born inhabitants of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Dred Scott v. Sandford. [Ms. Jcsxics Grata. York, New Jersey, and North Carolina, though descended... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...Constitution. Of this there can be no doubt. At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, all free native-born inhabitants of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Dred Scott v. Sandford. [Ma. JUSTICE CURTIS. York, New Jersey, and North Carolina, though descended... | |
| Michael W. Cluskey - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1860 - 830 pages
...Confederation, all free native-born inhabitants of the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Now York, New Jersey, and North Carolina, though descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those states, but such of them as had the other necessary qualification* possessed the franchise... | |
| George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...Of this there can be no doubt. At the time of the rati. fication of the Articles of Confederation, all free native-born inhabitants of the States of...descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those States, but such of them as had the other necessary qualifications possessed the franchise... | |
| Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) - 1862 - 1020 pages
...confederation, and at the time of the adoption of the Constitution of the United States, all free native born inhabitants of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts,...descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those States, but such of them as had the other necessary qualifications, possessed the franchise... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 694 pages
..." Of this, there can be no doubt. At the time of the ratification of the Articles of Confederation, all free, native-born inhabitants of the States of...descended from African slaves, were not only citizens of those States, but such of them as had the other necessary qualifications possessed the franchise... | |
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