 | Horace Mann - 1848 - 68 sivua
...Territory," he may be taken. By what other law than this can a runaway slave be retaken in a Territory ? If Congress has no power to legislate on the subject of slavery in any Territory, then., surely, it cannot legislate for the capture of a fugitive slave in a Territory-... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1850 - 36 sivua
...by General Cass, which has lately been published, that distinguished Senator, in order to prove that Congress has no power to legislate on the subject of slavery in the territories, has attempted to prove that it has no right to legislate for the territories at all. I refer to the... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 588 sivua
...by General Cass. which has lately been published, that distinguished senator, in order to prove that Congress has no power to legislate on the subject of slavery in the territories, has attempted to prove that it has no right to legislate for the territories at all. I refer to the... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 592 sivua
...by General Cass, which has lately been published, that distinguished senator, in order to prove that Congress has no power to legislate on the subject of slavery in the territories, has attempted to prove that it has no right to legislate for the territories at all. I refer to the... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 626 sivua
...territory," he may be taken. By what other law than this can a runaway slave be retaken in a territory ? If Congress has no power to legislate on the subject of slavery in any territory, then, surely, it cannot legislate for the capture of a fugitive slave in a territory.... | |
 | Horace Mann - 1851 - 588 sivua
...territory," he may be taken. By what other law than this can a runaway slave be retaken in a territory ? If Congress has no power to legislate on the subject of slavery in any territory, then, surely, it cannot legislate for the capture of a fugitive slave in a territory.... | |
 | Stephen Franks Miller - 1858 - 488 sivua
...The non-intervention principle was clearly observed, as an index from the committee that Congress had no power to legislate on the subject of slavery in the Territories, — leaving the decrees of Mexico to abide a. judicial test. I regret that the plan was not early adopted,... | |
 | Thomas Lanier Clingman - 1860 - 20 sivua
...convention, last March, you passed resolutions, without division, unanimously declaring that Cnogress had no power to legislate on the subject of slavery in the Territories; and that it would not be expedient for them to exercise it, if they had it ; you went to the national... | |
 | 1862 - 934 sivua
...territory of Texas, and in 1850 had extended it to the Pacific Ocean, now discovered that Congress had no power to legislate on the subject of slavery in the territories; a thing which it had been doing all along from the beginning of the Constitution ! So the Missouri... | |
 | 1862 - 926 sivua
...territory of Texas, and in 1850 had extended it to the Pacific Ocean, now discovered that Congress had no power to legislate on the subject of slavery in the territories ; a thing which it had been doing all along from the beginning of the Constitution ! So the Missouri... | |
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... abettors. Lastly, in the series of congressional acts, came the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The very men who in 1845 had recognized the validity of this compromise and applied it to the territory of Texas, and in 1850 had extended it to the... 
