 | Abraham Lincoln - 1906 - 464 pages
...Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, and James Madison. This shows that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, properly forbade Congress to prohibit slavery in the Federal territory ; else both their fidelity to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Ill., 1858 - 1906 - 650 pages
...Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, James Madison. This shows that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, properly forbade Congress to prohibit slavery in the Federal territory; else both their fidelity to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...voted against slavery prohibition and against all compromises. By this, Mr. King showed that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from Federal...mentioned are the only acts of the "thirty-nine," or of any of them, upon the direct issue, which I have been able to discover. To enumerate the persons... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1907 - 738 pages
...voted against slavery prohibition and against all compromises. By this. Mr. King showed that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from Federal...mentioned are the only acts of the " thirty-nine," or of any of them, upon the direct issue, which I have been able to discover. To enumerate the persons... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Presidents - 1907 - 458 pages
...Richard Bassett, George Read, Pierce Butler, Daniel Carroll, and James Madison. This shows that, in their understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, properly forbade Congress to prohibit slavery in the Federal territory ; else both their fidelity to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1907 - 336 pages
...approved and signed the bill, thus completing its validity as a law, and thus showing that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. No great while after... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - United States - 1909 - 330 pages
...approved and signed the bill; thus completing its validity as a law, and thus showing that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in federal territory. No great while after... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller - Presidents - 1910 - 192 pages
...voted against slavery prohibition and against all compromises. By this, Mr. King showed that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from Federal...mentioned are the only acts of the "thirty-nine," or of any of them, upon the direct issue, which I have been able to discover. To enumerate, the persons... | |
 | Francis Trevelyan Miller, Edward Bailey Eaton - Presidents - 1910 - 188 pages
...approved and signed the bill, thus completing its validity as a law, and thus showing that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from Federal authority, nor anything in the Constitution, forbade the Federal Government to control as to slavery in Federal territory. No great while after... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Readers - 1911 - 190 pages
...voted against slavery prohibition and against all compromises. By this, Mr. King showed that, in his understanding, no line dividing local from Federal...prohibiting slavery in Federal territory ; while Mr. Pinck5 ney, by his votes, showed that, in his understanding, there was some sufficient reason for opposing... | |
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... their oath to support the Constitution, would have constrained them to oppose the prohibition. Again, George Washington, another of the "thirty-nine... 
