| Campaign literature - 1860 - 268 pages
...meaning, and that it was mainly hased upon a mistaken statement of fact — the statement in the opinion that "the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." An inspection of the Constitution wdl ahcpr that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 138 pages
...meaning, and that it was mainly based upon ji mistaken statement of fact — the statement in the opinion that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly... | |
| William Dean Howells - Campaign biography - 1860 - 414 pages
...meaning ; and that it was mainly based upon a mistaken statement of fact — the statement in the opinion that "the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution/' An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly... | |
| Richard Josiah Hinton - Campaign literature - 1860 - 326 pages
...meaning ; and that was mainly based upon a mistaken statement of fact, — the statement in the opinion that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." SLAVES CONSIDERED AS PERSONS AND NOT AS PROPERTY. An inspection of the Constitution will show that... | |
| Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas - Campaign literature - 1860 - 348 pages
...being the supreme law, no constitution or law can interfere with it. It being affirmed in the decision that the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution, the conclusion inevitably follows that no State law or constitution can destroy that right. I then... | |
| Campaign literature - 1860 - 266 pages
...meaning, and that it was mainly based upon a mistaken statement of fact — the statement in the opinion that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 368 pages
...meaning, and that it was mainly based upon a mistaken statement of fact — the statement in the opinion that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly... | |
| David W. Bartlett - 1860 - 356 pages
...right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." I repeat it, " The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution!" What is it to be "affirmed" in the Constitution'? Made firm in the Constitution — so made that it... | |
| James Washington Sheahan - Legislators - 1860 - 562 pages
...say : " K <; w as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a differenl point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. . . . And if the Constitution recognizes the right of property of the master in a slave, and mokes... | |
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