| 1836 - 494 pages
...: " 1. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish, or interfere, within any State,...persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State." That was a proposition which was calculated, to a very great extent, to allay the apprehensions... | |
| William Wetmore Story - 1842 - 196 pages
...expressly provides : ' That no amendment shall be made to the constitution which will give Congress power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with...institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labour or servitude by the laws of the said State.' " Thus, in the very crisis of the present quarrel,... | |
| 1864 - 492 pages
...declared — " That no amendment shall be made to the Constitution which shall authorize or give Congress power to abolish or interfere within any state, with...institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labour or servitude by the laws of the said state." Previous legislation had, so far as slavery was... | |
| United States. Congress. House - 1860 - 600 pages
...which will authorize or j/ire to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, inV/t the domestic institutions thereof, including that...persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State." Pending which, Pending which, Mr. Hickmnn moved that the resolution be laid on the table. And... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1861 - 184 pages
...States: 1st. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with...persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State. 2d. The fugitive slave act of 1850 shall be so amended as to give to the alleged fugitive a... | |
| Ohio - 1861 - 448 pages
...Article XIII. No amendment shall be made to the constitution which will authorize or give congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any state, with...persons held to labor or service by the laws of said state :" and WHEREAS, Three-fourths of the legislatures of the said states composing the United States... | |
| New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1861 - 698 pages
...Article 13. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere within any State, with...persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State. WM. PENNINGTON, SpeaJcer of the House of Representatives. JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE, Vice-President... | |
| Kentucky. Commissioners to the Peace Conference at Washington, February, 1861 - 1861 - 96 pages
...inserting: 1st. No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with...persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State. The question on the adoption of said amendment resulted in the following vote: AYES—Maine,... | |
| Crafts James Wright - 1861 - 94 pages
...: 1st. Ne amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with...persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State. The question on the adoption of said amendment resulted in the following vote : AYES. — Maine,... | |
| Kentucky - 1861 - 372 pages
...made to the Constitution which 1861. will authorize or give Congress power to abolish or inter— fere within any State with the domestic institutions thereof,...persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State." And whereas, said proposed amendment is not, and ought not to be, accepted by Kentucky as a... | |
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