 | William Franklin Switzler - History - 1879 - 658 pages
...freedom, and that neither Congress, nor a territorial legislature, uor any individuals, have authority to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States ; and that the re-opening of the African slave trade, under cover of our national flag, aided by perversions... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 878 pages
...explicitly denied 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." Now the supreme court had said with equal distinctness, that the constitution ; recognized slavery... | |
 | Eugene Virgil Smalley - Campaign literature - 1880 - 368 pages
...authority of Congress, or 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 Congress... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Campaign literature - 1880 - 244 pages
...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. 9. That we brand the recent reopening of the African slave-trade, under the cover of our national flag,... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - Campaign literature - 1880 - 232 pages
...authority of Congress, of « Territorial Legislature, of any individual or association of individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United Statei while the present Constitution shall be maintained. 2. That the Constitution confers upon Congress... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 624 pages
...United States is that of freedom," and denied the power of Congress or of a territorial legislature to give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States. There were thus four political parties in the field: the Douglas Democrats, who wished to throw the... | |
 | Evan Rowland Jones - United States - 1881 - 272 pages
...violate it ; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislature, or of any individual, to give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States." The contest for the nomination of the party was close and spirited between William H. Seward of New... | |
 | John Denison Champlin - United States - 1881 - 626 pages
...United States is that of freedom," and denied the power of Congress or of a territorial legislature to give legal existence to slavery in any Territory of the United States. There were thus four political parties in the field: the Douglas Democrats, who wished to throw the... | |
 | Department of State (USA)., United States. Department of State - United States - 1862 - 512 pages
...question as to slavery in what might be called our colonies or dependencies. A majority of the voters in the free States had proclaimed to the world, in the...possession of the Union as free soil, and not slave soil, the slaveholders went to war with the United States government with the avowed determination of destroying... | |
 | Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...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. '•Boohed, That the Constitution confers upon... | |
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... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this 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,... 
