 | William C. Roberts - 1884 - 264 pàgines
...9th of August, Charles Francis Adams was substituted. The convention declared that ' ' Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a king." In accepting the nomination of this new party, Mr. Van Buren declared his full assent to its antislavery... | |
 | Edward Stanwood - 1884 - 424 pàgines
...property, without due legal process. Kesoivcd, 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... | |
 | Benjamin La Fevre - 1884 - 532 pàgines
...free soil to a free people; and, 5. 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... | |
 | James Penny Boyd - 1884 - 902 pàgines
...should exist in the Territories ; (4) that slavery exists only by State law and that " Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king ; " (5) that the only way to prevent slavery in territory now free is to prevent it in all territory... | |
 | S. Laura Ensign - 1885 - 114 pàgines
...Freesoilers to form the Republican party. THE FREE-SOIL PARTY. I. TIME. 1848-56. IL PLATFORM. Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king, hence there shall be no more slave territory created. III. LKADF.RS. Salmon P. Chase, John A Dix, Charles... | |
 | 1886 - 580 pàgines
...Convention, and took part in the Free-Soil Convention at Buffalo, which declared that Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and nominated Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams. The Whigs triumphed, and Gen. Zachary Taylor,... | |
 | 1886 - 836 pàgines
...was the settled policy of the fathers not to extend but to limit slavery ; declared that Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king ; that the national government should relieve itself from all responsibility for the existence of slavery... | |
 | 1886 - 662 pàgines
...soil for a free people, and to restrict slavery to its State limits. They said that " Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a king." So they refused to introduce slavery into new Territories. In the Thirty- First Congress, the Free-Soilers... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1887 - 442 pàgines
...York, reported a platform which declared that slavery was a mere state institution ; that Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a king ; that the national government should relieve itself of all responsibility for slavery ; that Congress... | |
 | 1895 - 970 pàgines
...ground on the subject of slavery, declaring against its further extension, and that " Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king." The slogan of the part}' was declared to be " Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men." John... | |
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