 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 pages
...George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, James Madison, Thomas Fitzsimmons. "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... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 536 pages
...steadily voted for slavery prohibition and against all compromises. I!v this. Mr. King showed that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything in the ( onstitution, was violated by Congress prohibiting slavery in federal territory; while Mr. Pinckney,... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 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, 6614 6615 properly forbade Congress to prohibit slavery in the Federal territory; else both their fidelity... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 512 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... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 510 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... | |
 | United States - 1902 - 354 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... | |
 | Joseph Benson Gilder - United States - 1902 - 346 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 [126] Federal territory ; else both their fidelity... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1905 - 362 pages
...Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, and James Madison. 25 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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 452 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... | |
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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... 
