There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or... Southern Historical Society Papers - Page 4311889Full view - About this book
| George E. Baker - 1855 - 424 pages
...once with precision, amplification, solemnity, and emphasis, that there " shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." And they further ORDAINED and declared that... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Morris - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 420 pages
...the right of jurisdiction, by providing, in a fundamental article for the government of the country, "that there should be neither slavery nor involuntary...said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crime, •whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." Thi» solemn rebuke of slavery was given... | |
| Edward Coles - Northwest, Old - 1856 - 48 pages
...provided their constitutions be republican; and the sixth ordains that there shall neither be slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always that any person escaping into the... | |
| United States - Emigration and immigration law - 1856 - 350 pages
...number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand. ART. 6. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: provided always, that any person escaping into the... | |
| George Tucker - History - 1856 - 672 pages
...number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand. ARTICLE 6. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; provided, always, that any person escaping into... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 176 pages
...declared to be unalterable, the sixth article of which provides that " tltere shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment for crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted," In pursuance of thU compact, all the... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1856 - 172 pages
...declared to be unalterable, the sixth article of which provides that " there shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment for crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted" In pursuance of this compact, all the... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - African Americans - 1857 - 260 pages
...people of the said Territory." The sixth article of that compact is, " there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided, always, that any person escaping into the... | |
| Benson John Lossing - United States - 1857 - 702 pages
...more republican principle. The bill, also, provided and declared, that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." Tbis ordinance was adopted on the 13th, after adding... | |
| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 648 pages
...read a third time, and passed, aa follows : • ***••* " ART. 6. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of Crimea whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping... | |
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