| David Brainerd Williamson - Presidents - 1865 - 322 pages
...meaning, and 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... | |
| Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 506 pages
...meaning, and 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... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 840 pages
...meaning, and 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... | |
| Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 496 pages
...meaning, and 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... | |
| Henry Jarvis Raymond - United States - 1865 - 848 pages
...meaning, and that it was mainly based npon 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... | |
| Frank Crosby - Presidents - 1865 - 480 pages
...meaning, and 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.-7 "An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave... | |
| Josiah Gilbert Holland - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 556 pages
...famous Douglas campaign, he denied the statement made by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision, that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution ; 5? but there was to him, and there is in fact, a great difference between a distinct and express... | |
| James Buchanan - Biography & Autobiography - 1866 - 316 pages
...States." " Now, as we have already said in. an earlier part of this opinion, on a different point, 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... | |
| James Buchanan - United States - 1866 - 316 pages
...United States." " Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, on a different point, 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... | |
| John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...recognized as property under the Constitution. Still he afterwards denied, in a controversy with Douglas, that the " right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." At the close of his two years' term of service in Washington, he returned to Springfield, and assiduously... | |
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