 | William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 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... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 538 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... | |
 | William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, James Madison. This shows that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, properly forbade Congress to prohibit slavery in the Federal territory; else both their fidelity to... | |
 | Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...King showed that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor any thing in the Constitution, was violated by Congress prohibiting...slavery in Federal territory; while Mr. Pinckney, by his vote, showed that, in his understanding, there was so' je sufficient reason for opposing such prohibition... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, and James Madison. This shows that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution; properly forbade Congress to prohibit slavery in the Federal territory; else both their fidelity to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Frank Weitenkampf, John Porter Lamberton - Biography - 1895 - 460 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...prohibition and against all compromises. By this Mr. King showed that in his understanding, no line divided local from Federal authority, nor anything in the...votes, showed that in his understanding, there was some different reason for opposing such prohibition in the case. The cases I have mentioned are the only... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 pages
...Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carrol, James Madison. This shows that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, properly forbade Congress to prohibit slavery in the federal territory; else both their fidelity to... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 pages
...Richard Bassett. George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, and James Madison. This shows that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, properly forbade Congress to prohibit slavery in the Federal territory ; else both their fidelity to... | |
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... their oath to support the Constitution, would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition. Again, George Washington, another of the "thirty-nine... 
