 | Alexander Johnston - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 452 pages
...distinctly affirmed. No distinction could be recognized between slave property and other property. " The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. No word can be found in the Constitution which gives Congress a greater power over slave property or... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Albert Woodburn - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1896 - 436 pages
...distinctly affirmed. No distinction could be recognized between slave property and other property. " The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. No word can be found in the Constitution which gives Congress a greater power over slave property or... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1898 - 300 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... | |
 | Lawrence Boyd Evans - Constitutional law - 1898 - 702 pages
...Government. Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of this opinion, upon a different point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property, was guaranteed to... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1899 - 196 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 u£ property in a slave is not " distinctly... | |
 | Edwin Doak Mead - United States - 1899 - 758 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... | |
 | Paul Selby - 1900 - 478 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... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 536 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... | |
 | United States - 1901 - 1234 pages
...the right of property of a citizen (p. 449^451). L pon this major premise, and upon the minor premise that the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Contitution (p. 451) he reached the conclusion that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. Now... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1901 - 728 pages
...right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.' I repeat it, ' *the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution.' ' The perpetuation of slavery by the Constitution, not the extension of the Constitution to the territories,... | |
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... the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution. 
