 And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives Congress a greater power over slave property, or which entitles property of that kind to less protection than property of any other description.  DISCOURSE ON THE ASPECTS OF THE WAR - Page 11by JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE - 1863Full view - About this book
 | David Saville Muzzey - History - 1915 - 632 pages
...the slave escapes from his owner.2 This is done in plain words, too plain to be misunderstood. And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives Congress a greater power over slave property . . . than property of any other description. Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the Court... | |
 | William MacDonald - United States - 1916 - 688 pages
...express terms is pledged to protect it in all future time, if the slave escapes from his owner. . . . And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives...protection than property of any other description. The only power conferred is the power coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting the owner in... | |
 | William MacDonald - United States - 1916 - 688 pages
...express terms is pledged to protect it in all future time, if the slave escapes from his owner. . . . And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives...protection than property of any other description. The only power conferred is the power coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting the owner in... | |
 | Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1916 - 566 pages
...that no word could be found therein giving Congress greater power over slave property or entitling property of that kind to less protection than property of any other description. In the opinion of the court, therefore, the Missouri Compromise Act was unwarranted by the Constitution... | |
 | Harvard University. Department of Government - Constitutional law - 1917 - 166 pages
...the slave escapes from his owner. This is done in plain words — too plain to be misunderstood. And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives...protection than property of any other description. The only power conferred is the power coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting the owner in... | |
 | Jackson Harvey Ralston - Constitutional law - 1919 - 92 pages
...of which we speak are not only not granted to Congress, but are in express terms denied. . . . And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives...protection than property of any other description. The only power conferred is the power coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting the owner in... | |
 | William Bennett Munro - United States - 1919 - 680 pages
...any citizen from owning slaves in such areas. "No word can be found in the constitution," said Taney, "which gives Congress a greater power over slave property,...protection than property of any other description." In some of its decisions during the early years of the Civil War, moreover, the court placed obstacles... | |
 | William MacDonald - Charters - 1921 - 686 pages
...express terms is pledged to protect it in all future time, if the slave escapes from his owner. . . . And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives...kind to less protection than property of any other 1 description. The only power conferred is the power coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1923 - 602 pages
...encroachments of the Government." . . . "This is done in plain words — too plain to be misunderstood. And no word can be found in the Constitution which gives...protection than property of any other description. The only power conferred is the power coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting the owner in... | |
 | Charles William Bacon, Franklyn Stanley Morse - Common law - 1924 - 424 pages
...the slave escapes from his owner. This is done in plain words — too plain to be misunderstood. And no word can be found in the constitution which gives...protection than property of any other description. The only power conferred is the power coupled with the duty of guarding and protecting the owner in... | |
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