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" That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require. "
Sketches in North America: With Some Account of Congress and of the Slavery ... - Page 175
by Hugo Reid - 1861 - 320 pages
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The Works of Daniel Webster: Speeches in the convention to amend the ...

Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 572 pages
...that which bears on the present question, was expressed in the following terms : — " Resolved, That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation...remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein which humanity and true policy may require." This resolution received...
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Speeches in Congress

Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 578 pages
...Congress has no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them, within any of the States ; it remaining with the several...therein, which humanity and true policy may require. This, in my opinion, is the Constitution and the law. I feel bound by it. I have quoted the resolution...
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The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches in Congress

Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 640 pages
...adopted, after much consideration, at the commencement of the government, which was, that Congress has no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them, within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein,...
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The History of Georgia, from Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

Timothy Shay Arthur - Georgia - 1852 - 372 pages
...existing shall think proper to admit, cannot be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808. " That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation...regulations therein which humanity and true policy require. " That Congress have authority to restrain the citizens of the United States from carrying...
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The History of the United States of America, Volume 4

Richard Hildreth - United States - 1852 - 718 pages
...existing shall think proper to admit can not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808. " That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation...regulations therein which humanity and true policy require. " That Congress have authority to restrain the citizens of the United States from carrying...
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Speeches of Messrs. Hayne and Webster in the United States Senate, on the ...

Robert Young Hayne - Foot's resolution, 1829 - 1852 - 90 pages
...that which bears on the present question, was expressed in the following terms : — " Resolved, That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation...remaining with the several states alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require." This resolution received...
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The History of Georgia: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time

Timothy Shay Arthur, William Henry Carpenter - Georgia - 1853 - 346 pages
...existing shall think proper to admit, cannot be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808. " That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation...regulations therein which humanity and true policy require. " That Congress have authority to restrain the citizens of the United States from carrying...
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Speeches in the convention to amend the constitution of Massachusetts ...

Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...that which bears on the present question, was expressed in the following terms : — " Resolved, That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation...remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein which humanity and true policy may require." This resolution received...
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The Great Orations and Senatorial Speech of Daniel Webster: Comprising ...

Daniel Webster - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1853 - 130 pages
...that which bears on the present question, was expressed in the following terms : — " Hesolved, That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation...remaining with the several states alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and trae policy may require." This resolution received...
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Legal arguments and speeches to the jury ; Diplomatic and official papers ...

Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...control of the States themselves ; and this, I am sure, is the opinion of the whole North. Congress has no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves,...or in the treatment of them in any of the States. This 'was so resolved in the House of Representatives, when Congress sat in this city in 1790, on the...
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