 | Eugene Tyler Chamberlain, Thomas W. Handford - 1884 - 564 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 as... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1885 - 476 pages
...Constitution carried slavery into all the territories, was a dangerous political heresy, revolutionary in tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony...the country ; that the normal condition of all the territories is that of freedom ; that neither Congress, the territorial legislature, nor any individual,... | |
 | William Lyne Wilson - 1888 - 676 pages
...slavery had no legal status outside of the jurisdiction of the State in which it was established ; 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 any individual to give legal... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1888 - 714 pages
...precedent, is revolutionary in its tendency and subversive of the pence and harmony of the country. 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 our national territory, ordained... | |
 | Bp. Samuel Fallows, Samuel Fallows - 1888 - 436 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 as... | |
 | Abraham R. Howbert - 1888 - 404 pages
...variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument; * * that the * 1 Greelcy's Conflict 3of,. normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; that as our republican fathers * * ordained [in the constitution] that 'no person shall be deprived... | |
 | Amos Hadley - 1888 - 426 pages
...is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of the instrument itself, revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country." Upon this platform, Abraham Lincoln was nominated for the presidency. In the fierce political campaign... | |
 | Edward Stanwood - 1888 - 476 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 as... | |
 | William Henry Herndon - 1889 - 276 pages
...Constitution carries slavery into all the Territories, is a dangerous political heresy, revolutionary in tendency and subversive of the peace and harmony of...the country ; that the normal condition of all the Territories is that of freedom ; that neither Congress, the territorial legislature, nor any individual... | |
 | K. L. Armstrong - 1889 - 460 pages
...contemplated treason" which it was the duty of the people to "rebuke and forever silence." It asserted that the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom; that the reopening of the slave trade was a crime against humanity; that duties should be adjusted... | |
| |
That the normal condition of all the territory of the United States is that of freedom... 
