 | Woodrow Wilson - 1893 - 372 pàgines
...could not be repealed or modified by the federal government ; " but they maintained that Congress had " no more power to make a slave than to make a king, to establish slavery than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... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1894 - 794 pàgines
...incongruous elements, nominated Van Buren and CF Adams. Its resolutions declared that Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and ought to keep slavery out of the Territories. The " Free-Soilers " polled 291,263 votes in 1848. They... | |
 | James Mitchell Ashley - 1894 - 944 pàgines
...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, it... | |
 | Noah Brooks - 1895 - 226 pàgines
...on the subject of slavery, declared against its further extension, and insisted that " Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king." The slogan of the party was declared to be "Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free Men." John... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - 1895 - 686 pàgines
...or encourage . . . slaverv, and to this policy . . . the government ought to return." "Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king." "The only safe means of preventing the extension of slavery into territory now free, is to prevent.... | |
 | Edward Stanwood - 1896 - 552 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1896 - 114 pàgines
...property without due legal process. 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 Monroe - 1897 - 392 pàgines
...devices, the standards which they had sworn to follow in battle. It had indeed declared that Congress had "no more power to make a slave than to make a king." But could it have named no spot where Congress had power to unmake a slave? Must the clanking of fetters... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - 1897 - 524 pàgines
...and Charles F. Adams, and in their platform made four important declarations : 1. That Congress has no more power to make a slave, than to make a king. 2. That there must be " free soil for a free people." 3. " No more slave states, no more slave territories."... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson - 1897 - 802 pàgines
...incongruous elements, nominated Van Buren and CF Adams. Its resolutions declared that Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and ought to keep slavery out of the Territories. The " Free-Soilers " polled 291,263 votes in 1848. They... | |
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