 | 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
...meaning, 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... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 pages
...Wheaton, (US Supreme Court Reports!, page 49. The Court said in The Dred Scott case, above referred to, . The war is actually begun ! The next gale, The right to traffic in it like the ordinary article of merchandise and property was guarantied to... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 568 pages
...that different rules may be applied to it in expounding the Constitution of the United States." But "the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. . . . And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives Congress a greater power over slave... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1892 - 604 pages
...that different rules may be applied to it in expounding the Constitution of the United States." But "the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. . . . And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives Congress a greater power over slave... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - 1893 - 410 pages
...the decision 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.'" In closing, he begged the Republicans, in behalf of peace and harmony, to "do nothing through passion... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1894 - 268 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1894 - 274 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 444 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... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1894 - 336 pages
...being the supreme law, no 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... | |
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... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. 
