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" provision of the constitution against all attempts to violate it ; and we deny the authority of congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States. "
The Works of William H. Seward - Page 680
by William Henry Seward - 1884
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Slavery Doomed: Or, The Contest Between Free and Slave Labour in the United ...

Frederick Milnes Edge - Cotton growing - 1860 - 250 pages
...we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, of any individual or association of individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained, Resolved,—That the Constitution confers upon...
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Slavery Doomed: Or, The Contest Between Free and Slave Labour in the United ...

Frederick Milnes Edge - Cotton growing - 1860 - 250 pages
...we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, of any individual or association of individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained. Resolved,—That the Constitution confers upon...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, of any individual or association of Individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained. -> Resolved, That while the Constitution of the...
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Teachings of Patriots and Statesmen: Or, The "founders of the Republic" on ...

Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 558 pages
...we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or any individual or association of individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained. Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Cbngress...
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Fanaticism, and Its Results: Or, Facts Versus Fancies

United States - 1860 - 36 pages
...we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or any individual or association of individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained." Such, then, is an outline of the History of this...
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A Political Text-book for 1860: Comprising a Brief View of Presidential ...

Campaign literature - 1860 - 270 pages
...authority of Congress, of a territo:ial legislature, of any individual or association of individuáis, to give legal existence to Slavery in any territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be ma ntained. JPenot'ßi-d, That the Constitution confers upon...
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National History of the War for the Union, Civil, Military and ..., Volume 1

Evert Augustus Duyckinck - United States - 1861 - 674 pages
...becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain the provisions of the Constitution against all attempts to violate...Congress, of a Territorial Legislature, or of any individMals, to give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States.' Intermediate...
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Journal, Volume 7

Nebraska. Legislature. House of Representatives - 1861 - 356 pages
...normal condition of all the territories is that of freedom, and we deny the authority nf Congress or of a Territorial Legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any tertitory of the United States." Normal mean ', regutaraccording to an established law." What law?...
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Teachings of Patriots and Statesmen: Or, The "Founders of the Republic" on ...

Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 526 pages
...We deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or any individual or association of individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained. Resolved, That the Constitution confers upon Congress...
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The War in America: Being an Historical and Political Account of the ...

Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...believe that the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom, and deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature,...to slavery in any territory of the United States. 8th. Those who believe that there cannot be property in man; "that all men are born equally free and...
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