 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 452 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... | |
 | William Gardner - 1905 - 254 pages
...them and charged with the duty of promoting the interests of the whole people of the Union. * * * * 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, is guaranteed to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Stephen A. Douglas - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 474 pages
...Court and the advocates of that decision may search in vain for the place in the Constitution where the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed. I say, therefore, that I think one of the premises is not true in fact. But it is true with Judge Douglas.... | |
 | Garry Wills - Death - 1992 - 324 pages
...6.312. 43. Ibid., p. 312. 44. Taney, Dred Scott v. John FA Sandford, 19 Howard 393 (1857), pp. 451-52: 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... | |
 | Herbert J. Storing - Business & Economics - 1995 - 490 pages
...precedents), is there any difference between property in slaves and other property. In fact, he said, "the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution."14 These words are striking: if one had to think of two adverbs that do not describe... | |
 | Digital Scanning Inc - History - 1999 - 278 pages
...others, that I think it will take a better answer than a sneer to show that those 184 who have said that the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution, arc not prepared to show that no constitution or law can destroy that right. I say I believe it will... | |
 | Robert Johnson (Jr.) - Law - 1998 - 552 pages
...government. Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon 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 guarantied to... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...joint debates, Lincoln had declared that the essence of Dred Scott was compressed into the assertion that "The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." If this were true, Lincoln argued, then slave owners had the same constitutional right to federal protection... | |
 | Diane Ravitch - Reference - 2000 - 662 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... | |
 | Bobby M. Wilson - History - 2000 - 292 pages
...committed no offence against the laws, could hardly be dignified with the name of due process of law. . . . 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 guarantied [sic]... | |
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... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. 
