 | Marvin T. Wheat - 1862 - 520 pages
...instrument itself, with cotemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent ; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country. 8. That the normal condition of all the Territories of the United States is that of freedom : That... | |
 | Alfred C. Thomas - 1863 - 36 pages
...Mr. Lincoln was nominated for the Presidential chair, and elected on this avowed principle, viz., " That the normal condition of all. the territory of the United States is that of freedom — and we deny the authority of Congress, or a Territorial Legislation, or of any individuals, to give legal... | |
 | 1915 - 784 pages
...carries Slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States." By such course they would deny "that the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom." By such course they would grant "the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1863 - 116 pages
...instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country. 8th.—That the nominal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom: that... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1863 - 284 pages
...instrument itself, with cotemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedents, is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country." POWER OF CONGRESS OVER TERRITORIES. As heretofore stated, Northern men have claimed for Congress the... | |
 | George Washington Bacon - 1863 - 122 pages
...in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country. 8th. — That the nominal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom : that as our Republican fathers, when they bad abolished slavery in all our national territory, ordained... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - 1864 - 774 pages
...subject by those who wield the power of" this Government. Mr. CLINGMAN read, as follows : Eighth. " That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our republican fathers, when they had abolished slavery in all onr national territory, ordained... | |
 | James William Massie - 1864 - 534 pages
...contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent, is revolutionary in its tendencv, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country. That the normal condition of all territory of the United States is that of freedom ; that as our Republican fathers, when they had abolished... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 694 pages
...instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent ; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country. "8. That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of Freedom : That,... | |
 | Jacob Harris Patton - 1865 - 902 pages
...State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively." " That the normal condition of all the Territory of the United States is that of FREEDOM," and they denied " the authority of Congress, of a Territorial Legislature, or of individuals, to give legal... | |
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That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom... 
