 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 720 pages
...servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slave-holding states, and, indeed,...the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed. Its true design was to guard against the doctrines and principles prevalent in the non slave-holding... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 1074 pages
...servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slaveholding States; and, indeed,...the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed. Its true design was to guard against the doctrines and principles prevalent in the non-slaveholding... | |
 | William Maxwell Evarts - Courts - 1919 - 768 pages
...servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slaveholding States; and, indeed,...the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed. Its true design was to guard against the doctrines and principles prevalent in the non-slaveholding... | |
 | Charles William Bacon, Franklyn Stanley Morse - Common law - 1924 - 424 pages
...servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slaveholding States; and, indeed,...the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed. Its true design was to guard against the doctrines and principles prevalent in the non-slaveholding... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1981 - 340 pages
...Prigg v. Pennsylvania. Joseph Story, for instance, said that the fugitive-slave clause unquestionably "constituted a fundamental article without the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed." Thus the clause, by reason of its supposed indispensability, was elevated into a special category... | |
 | William E. Nelson - Political Science - 1982 - 240 pages
...as "so vital to the preservation of [the] . . . domestic interests and institutions [of the South] that it cannot be doubted that it constituted a fundamental...the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed" and could not continue to exist. Of course, as Story might have added, preservation of the... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1874 - 556 pages
...escape, i. . . and that the full recognition of this right was so vital to the slaveholding states, that it constituted a fundamental article, without...the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed." • 144 SUPREME COURT OF OHIO. Ex parte Bushuell. Ex parte Langston. It is quite difficult... | |
 | Robert M. Cover - Law - 1975 - 340 pages
...conferred legitimacy and a measure of protection for slavery. Story called the Fugitive Slave clause, "a fundamental article, without the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed." And Phillips wholeheartedly agreed, denoting the five proslavery clauses as "the articles... | |
 | Robert A. Goldwin, Art Kaufman - History - 1988 - 204 pages
...and approval of the Constitution. As Justice Story phrased it in his Prigg opinion, the clause was "a fundamental article, without the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed." Four other justices joined Story in paying tribute to the myth. Thus a majority of the Court... | |
 | James Boyd White - Political Science - 1994 - 332 pages
...where they were held in servitude. It cannot be doubted, he says, that this provision, so interpreted, "constituted a fundamental article, without the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed." The right of the owner, Story says, must be exactly the same in the state to which the slave... | |
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The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slaveholding States ; and, indeed, was so vital to the preservation of their domestic interests and institutions, that it cannot be doubted... 
