 | Abraham Lincoln - 1911 - 140 pages
...Of these, Roger Sherman, Thomas Mifflin, and Hugh Williamson voted for the prohibition, thus showing that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. The other... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Readers - 1911 - 190 pages
...approved and signed the bill, thus completing its 15 validity as a law, and thus showing that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. No great while after... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1911 - 170 pages
...They were William Blount and William Few ; and they both voted for the prohibition — thus showing that in their understanding no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the federal government to control as to slavery in federal terri- 15 :ory. This... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1912 - 180 pages
...They were William Blount and William Few; and they both voted for the prohibition — thus showing that in their understanding no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. This time... | |
 | John Hays Gardiner - Fiction - 1912 - 312 pages
...approved and signed the bill, thus completing its validity as a law, and thus showing that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. No great while after... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1913 - 140 pages
...these, Roger Sherman,4 Thomas Mifflin,5 and Hugh Williamson 6 voted for the prohibition, thus showing that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. The other... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 472 pages
...They were William Blount and William Few ; and they both voted for the prohibition — thus showing that in their understanding no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. This time... | |
 | Victor Alvin Ketcham - Debates and debating - 1914 - 400 pages
...Of these, Roger Sherman, Thomas Mifflin, and Hugh Williamson voted for the prohibition, thus showing that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. The other... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1914 - 212 pages
...these, Roger Sherman, Thomas Mifflin, and Hugh Williamson voted for the prohibition, thus 25 showing that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal Territory. The other... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Copyright - 1915 - 156 pages
...these, Roger Sherman, Thomas Mifflin, and Hugh Williamson voted 10 for the prohibition, thus showing that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything else, properly forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. The other... | |
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Confederation; and two more of the "thirtynine" who afterward signed the Constitution were in that Congress, and voted on the question. They were William Blount and William Few; and they both voted for the prohibition — thus showing that in their understanding... 
