| Lewis O. Thompson - 1873 - 336 pàgines
...property, without due legal process. Resolved, That in tho judgment of this Convention, Congress has no more power to make a Slave than to make a King : no more power to institute orcstablish Slavery than to institute or establish a Monarchy: no such... | |
| Henry Wilson - 1874 - 754 pàgines
...Constitution were intended to secure the blessings of liberty ; that the Constitution conferred upon Congress no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and no more power to permit the existence of slavery, where it had exclusive jurisdiction, tban to permit the existence... | |
| Patrick Cudmore - 1875 - 278 pàgines
...Liberty, expressly denies to the General Government all power to deprive any person of life, liberty or property without due process of law; and therefore, the Government having no more power to establish™ slavery than to establish a monarchy should at once proceed to relieve itself from all... | |
| George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1876 - 894 pàgines
...Buffalo on Aug. 9, Charles Francis Adams was substituted. The convention declared that "congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king;" and that "it is the duty of the federal government to relieve itself from all responsibility for the existence... | |
| Alexander Johnston - 1879 - 298 pàgines
...party, the Free Soilers, at Buffalo, August 9th. It adopted a platform declaring that Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and that there should be no more Slave States, and no more Slave Territories. It nominated Martin Van Buren,... | |
| Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1882 - 586 pàgines
...liberty, expressly denies to the general government all power to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law ; and, therefore,...more power to establish slavery than to establish a monarehy, should at once proceed to relieve itself from all responsibility for the existence of slavery,... | |
| John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 pàgines
...valid by state laws, for which the federal government was not responsible; but that congress had " no more power to make a slave than to make a king," and hence was bound to restrict slavery to the slave slates, and to refuse it admission to the territories.... | |
| Walter Raleigh Houghton - 1882 - 592 pàgines
...property, without due legal process. 6. Resolved, That in the judgment of this convention, Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king ; no more power to institute or establish slavery than to institute or establish a monarchy; no such... | |
| George Washington Julian - 1884 - 402 pàgines
...Butler, and others, and it declared, among its pregnant and telling sentences, that " Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king," and that " it is the duty of the Federal Government to relieve itself from all responsibility for the existence... | |
| John Joseph Lalor - 1883 - 1076 pàgines
...valid by state laws, for which the federal government was not responsible; but that congress had " no more power to make a slave than to make a king," and hence was bound to restrict slavery to the slave states, and to refuse it admission to the territories.... | |
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