 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1894 - 1080 pages
...Court and the advocates of that decision may search in vain for the place in the Constitution where the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed. I say, therefore, that I think one of the premises is not true in fact. But it is true with Judge Douglas.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 454 pages
...Court and the advocates of that decision may search in vain for the place in the Constitution where the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed. I say, therefore, that I think one of the premises is not true in fact. But it is true with Judge Douglas.... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1894 - 438 pages
...Court and the advocates of that decision may search in vain for the place in the Constitution where the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed. I say, therefore, that I think one of the premises is not true in fact. But it is true with Judge Douglas.... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 702 pages
...the spirit of the age. True, it might be urged, as Taney had maintained in the Dred Scott decision, that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution,"' and that the Crittenden amendment asserted no more ; but to Republicans who venerated the Constitution... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 702 pages
...the spirit of the age. True, it might be urged, as Taney had maintained in the Dred Scott decision, that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution," ' and that the Crittenden amendment asserted no more ; but to Republicans who venerated the Constitution... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Campaign debates - 1895 - 584 pages
...being the supreme law, no constitution or law can interfere with it. It being affirmed in the decision that the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution, the conclusion inevitably follows that no State law or constitution can destroy that right. I then... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 686 pages
...the spirit of the age. True, it might be urged, as Taney had maintained in the Dred Scott decision, that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution,"4 and that the Crittenden amendment asserted no more ; but to Republicans who venerated... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - United States - 1895 - 686 pages
...the spirit of the age. True, it might be urged, as Taney had maintained in the Dred Scott decision, that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution,"4 and that the Crittenden amendment asserted no more ; but to Republicans who venerated... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1895 - 926 pages
...there was no difference " between property in a slave and any other property." He said: "The riglit of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Consi itution. [Not so.] The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property,... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1896 - 502 pages
...meaning; and that it was mainly based upon a mistaken statement of fact—-the statement in the opinion that "the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not distinctly... | |
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... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. 
