...be so deprived. The Constitution therefore recognizes all men as persons only. Congress under it has no more power to make a slave than to make a king; to establish slavery than to set up the Inquisition. It cannot interfere with slavery in the States,...

...Slavery, and contained the epigrammatic declarations: "A free soil for a free people," and "Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king." The popular vote in 1848 was Van Buren and Adams. 291. 34:1 : Cass (Democrat), 1.21!>.!)G2: Taylor...

...platform vigorously protesting against slavery which contained these famous passages: — Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king. A free soil to a free people. In four years land agitation had become a potent factor in American politics....

...departed from, the government ought to return;" "that in the judgment of this convention Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king; no more power to institute or establish slavery than to institute or establish a monarchy;" "that the...

...departed from, the government ought to return;" "that in the judgment of this convention Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king; no more power to institute or establish slavery than to institute or establish a monarchy;" "that the...

...laws which could not be repealed or modified by the federal government ; " but they maintained that Congress had "no more power to make a slave than to make a king, to establish slavery than to establish a monarchy," and that the existence of slavery ought to be specifically...

...the Presidency, came out against slavery in the strongest of terms. The Free Soilers declared that Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a King. They resolved : " That we accept the issue which the slave power has forced upon us ; and to their...

...person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; and therefore the government, having no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and no more power to establish slavery than to establish a monarchy, should at once proceed to relieve...

...nominated Van "SOAPBOXER" Buren and Adams in 1848, and ran them on a platform declaring "Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king," and for "no more slave states and no more slave territory." They received in the national election...

...the nation which should never have been departed from, and to which the Government ought to return. Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a king. The report of the Committee of Eight (the Senate committee on the territories, mentioned in the preceding...