| Samuel Tyler - Electronic books - 1872 - 676 pages
...have been provided for the protection of private property against the encroachments of the Government. Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of...distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property, was guaranteed to... | |
| Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 630 pages
...that it was mainly based upon a mistaken statement of fact, — the statement in the opinion that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 848 pages
...tion of private property against the encroachments of the government. Now, as we have already s;iid in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a different...distinctly and expressly affirmed in the constitution. The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property, was guarantied to... | |
| William Osborn Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 716 pages
...that it was mainly based upon a mistaken statement of fact — the statement in the opinion that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not " distinctly... | |
| Benjamin La Fevre - Political parties - 1884 - 532 pages
...Supreme Court Reports), page 49. The Court said in The Dred Scott case, above referred to, that:—" The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. The ri;^ht to traffic in it like the ordinary article of merchandise and property was guarantied to... | |
| William O. Stoddard - Presidents - 1884 - 536 pages
...that it was mainly based upon a mistaken statement of fact — the statement in the opinion that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not " distinctly... | |
| John Alexander Logan - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1886 - 912 pages
...Supreme Law, no (State) Constitution or law can interfere with it. It being affirmed in the decision that the right of property in a Slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution, the conclusion inevitably follows that no State law or Constitution can destroy that right. " I then... | |
| James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 694 pages
...declared that there was no difference " between property in a slave and any other property." He said: "The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. [Not so ] The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property, was guaranteed... | |
| Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...United States Supreme Court, in 1856, in his opinion in the celebrated Dred Scott case,1 said : — } " The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. The right to traffic in it like an ordinary article of merchandise and property was guaranteed to the... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond, Francis Bicknell Carpenter - Presidents - 1891 - 424 pages
...and that it was mainly based upon a mistaken statement of furt — the statement in the opinion that "the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not "distinctly... | |
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