...contained very strong political doctrine. Among other declarations made were these : ' ' Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king. ... It is the duty of the federal Government to relieve itself from all responsibility for the existence...

...reiterated its opposition to the extension of slavery and declared that ' ' Congress had no more right to make a slave than to make a king, and no more power to establish slavery than it had to establish monarchy. ' ' It also declared its opposition to any national legislation for the...

...slavery in any state, but its prohibition in the territories then free ; for Congress, they said, had " no more power to make a slave than to make a king." There must be no more compromises with slavery. They accepted the issue forced upon them by the slave...

...property, without due legal process. 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...

...President. In the speech which I delivered that day, I said: "I do not believe that Congress has any more power to make a slave than to make a king," and added: "If, then, there is, as I claim, no power in Congress to reduce any man or race to slavery,...

...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,...having no more power to make a slave than to make я king, and no more power to establish slavery than to establish a monarchy, should at once proceed...

...admirable and timely declaration of principles, affirming, among other things, 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...

...of slavery, and contained such ringing phrases as "a free soil to a free people/' and " Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king." Van Buren and Adams received no electoral votes, but their popular vote was 291,342, against 1,219,962...

...nominated Martin Van Buren, and gave him 300,000 votes. In their platform they declared that Congress had no more power .to make a slave than to make a king; that they accepted the issue thrust on them by the South ; that to the demand for more slave states...

...could not be repealed or modified by the federal government ; " but they maintained that Congress had " no more power to make a slave than to make a king, to establish slavery than to establish a monarchy," and that the existence of slavery ought to be specifically...