 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 680by William Henry Seward - 1884Full view - About this book
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1862 - 932 pages
...more direct and less tortuous way. It is exactly the doctrine of the Chicago platform, which denies " the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature,...to slavery in any territory of the United States;" meaning, of course, any of the present territory, in which no existing local law authorizes it. How,... | |
 | Marvin T. Wheat - African Americans - 1862 - 520 pages
...provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress or a territorial legislature, or of any individuals,...to slavery in any Territory of the United States. 9. That we brand the recent re-opening of the African slave trade, under the cover of our national... | |
 | John Ashton Nicholls - Europe - 1862 - 446 pages
...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 Constitutionconfers upon... | |
 | United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln) - Presidents - 1862 - 986 pages
...Lincoln, that the normal condition of our territories was that of freedom, and that no power existed to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States. In regard to those territories, half as large as Europe, Congress had power, by the Constitution, to... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Slavery - 1862 - 344 pages
...Congress, or of any other power in the Union, so long as the present Constitution was maintained, could give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States. The fundamental principle of the party was thus the non-extension of slavery. Taking its stand on this... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Kansas - 1868 - 208 pages
...United States," and has explicitly denied " the authority of Congress, of a TerritorialLegislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to Slavery in any Territory of the United States." Such is the triumphant response by the aroused millions of the North, alike to the assumption of Slave-masters... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1863 - 780 pages
...becomes our duty by legislation, wherever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this principle of the constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, as a territorial legislation, or of individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 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... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Slavery - 1863 - 462 pages
...Congress, or of any other power in the Union, so long as the present Constitution was maintained, could give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States. The fundamental principle of the party was thus the non-extension of slavery. Taking its stand on this... | |
 | John Elliott Cairnes - Slavery - 1863 - 170 pages
...Congress, or of any other power in the Union, so long as the present Constitution was maintained, could give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States. The fundamental principle of the party was thus the non-extension of slavery. Taking its stand on this... | |
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