 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
 | Ward Hill Lamon - 1872 - 654 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 Constitution confers upon... | |
 | George Washington Julian - History - 1872 - 512 pages
...denies " 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." Slavery is thus declared to be legally and constitutionally... | |
 | Everett Chamberlin - Biography & Autobiography - 1872 - 568 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... | |
 | United States. Department of State - Alabama claims - 1872 - 874 pages
...the territory of the United States is that of freedom," and to "deny the authority of Congress, of ะป Territorial Legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery iu any Territory of the United States." 1 The word "Territory" is here used in the above-mentioned... | |
 | United States - 1873 - 912 pages
...''that the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom," and to " deny the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislature,...to slavery in any Territory of the United States." 1 The word "Territory " is here used iu the above-mentioned sense of an incipient political organization,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 528 pages
...to be " the normal condition of all the territory of the United States," and has explicitly denied " the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislature,...to Slavery in any Territory of the United States." Such is the triumphant response by the aroused millions of the North to the assumption of Slave-Masters,... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 528 pages
...to be "the iiormal condition of all the territory of the United States," and has explicitly denied " the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislature,...to Slavery in. any Territory of the United States." Such is the triumphant response by the aroused millions of the North to the assumption of Slave-Masters,... | |
 | Jacob William Schuckers - Slavery - 1874 - 714 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 ;" and " that the Constitution confers upon Congress... | |
 | Jacob William Schuckers - History - 1874 - 736 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 ;" and " that the Constitution confers upon Congress... | |
 | Henry Wilson - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 754 pages
...the duty of government to maintain them, it denied that Congress, or any other body, had any power to " give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States." It asserted the " sovereign power " of Congress over the Territories, and its right and duty " to prohibit... | |
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