 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1919 - 526 pages
...offered a memorial that on the subject of slavery the General Assembly should have no power or authority to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners or without paying their owners.33 The memorial further prayed that, the legislature should... | |
 | Rebecca Latimer Felton - Country life - 1919 - 318 pages
...Georgia Secession Convention, you will find the following words: "The General Assembly (of Georgia) shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves." These were very superfluous words. Those who owned them wanted more and those who did not own them... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1920 - 356 pages
...anything incongruous in the lofty conceptions of the Bill of Rights and the following paragraph : "The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves." The Constitution was to be amended only by a convention of the people. It was of force only from July,... | |
 | Missouri. Governor - Missouri - 1922 - 576 pages
...which must have great influence in determining the choice of a scheme of emancipation. It is this: "The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws...the emancipation of slaves, without the consent of their owners or without paying them, before such emancipation, a full equivalent for such slaves so... | |
 | Caleb Perry Patterson - African Americans - 1922 - 226 pages
...ninth recommended that Article II, Section 31, of the Constitution of 1834, to the effect that "the General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws...the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owner or owners," be abrogated and that slavery be abolished forever, and the legislature be... | |
 | William Elsey Connelley, Ellis Merton Coulter - History - 1922 - 650 pages
...This, the earliest expression of the Kentucky pioneer democracy on slavery, follows : "The Legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, or without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent in money,... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1923 - 496 pages
...provisions in the proposed Constitution of Arkansas; namely, that the General Assembly of the state should have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, and also that it should have no means of preventing emigrants to that state from bringing their slaves... | |
 | Shirley Gill Pettus - 1924 - 206 pages
...unanimously.) We are not surprised, then, to find in the Constitution adopted, the following provisions: "The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws...the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, or without paying their owners pre~ vious to such emancipation a full equivalent in money... | |
 | Dunbar Rowland - Mississippi - 1925 - 984 pages
...SLAVES AS PROPERTY The provisions in the constitution regarding slaves withheld from the legislature the power to "pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, unless where the slave shall have rendered to the State some distinguished service, in... | |
 | William Elsey Connelley - Kansas - 1928 - 682 pages
...right of the owner of any property whatever." In the second section it provided that "The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves... | |
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State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States... 
