 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1002 pages
...holding State. In her Constitution adopted in 1851, it was declared : "The right of property is better and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase, is the same and as inviolate as the right of the owner of any other property whatever.... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1859 - 634 pages
...section is this: bi The right of property ¡a before and higher than any conFmiuional sanction ; ami the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and i ta increase is the same, and as inviolable, as the right of the owner of any property whatever."... | |
 | Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - African Americans - 1846 - 510 pages
...State Convention above alluded to was substantially this. The 20th section of the 9th article affirms " The right of property is before and higher than any...the right of the owner of a Slave to such Slave, and its increase, is the same, and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever." The... | |
 | Arkansas. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1888 - 666 pages
...he is paid the real and true value for it, unless he is willing to give it away or sell it for less. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation therefor. Id., art. 2,... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1852 - 680 pages
...and property of freemen, exists nowhere in a republic — not even in the largest majority. SEC. 3. The right of property is before and higher than any...the right of the owner of a slave to such slave, and its increase, is the same, and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. SEC.... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...liberty, and property of freemen, exists nowhere in a republic — not even in the largest majority. \ 3. The right of property is before and higher than any...the right of the owner of a slave to such slave, and its increase, is the same, and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. fi... | |
 | United States - 1856 - 654 pages
...principle is clearly announced in the Lecompton Constitution. It is declared in that instrument that " the right of property is before and higher than any...the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase, is the same, and is as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever."... | |
 | Jonathan French - Newspapers - 1857 - 594 pages
...liberty, and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, — not even in the largest majority. § 3. The right of property is before and higher than any...the right of the owner of a slave to such slave, and its increase, is the same, and as inviolable, as the right of the owner of any property whatever. §... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1858 - 638 pages
...constitutions, has no legal effect whatever. The language of the first section of the seventh article is: " The right of property is before and higher than any...the right 'of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same, and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever." But... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 820 pages
...of such laws, to have such slave or slaves sold for the benefit of the owner or owners. SECTION 1. The right of property is before and higher than any...the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. SEC.... | |
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The right of property is before and higher than any Constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. 
