 | Massachusetts. Governor (1861-1866 : Andrew) - 1862 - 1020 pages
...State, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and all...service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free." And the thirty-sixth section of the third article of the constitution declares: — " The General Assembly... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - 1864 - 856 pages
...State, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; and all...service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free. Art. 24. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention, William Blair Lord, Henry Martyn Parkhurst - 1864 - 606 pages
...State, there shaH be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; and all...service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free.' ' principles is he to treat them ? Just as you do the free negroes now, unquestionably ; and not as... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention, William Blair Lord, Henry Martyn Parkhurst - 1864 - 744 pages
...State, there shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude except in punishment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and all...service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free. If that is adopted, no lawyer in the world will say that with such an article in the Constitution,... | |
 | Robert Livingston Stanton - 1864 - 576 pages
...neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall be duly convicted; and all persons held to service or labor as SLAVES, are hereby declared FREE." Upon this, the American says: "This article, after a protracted debate in the Constitutional Convention,... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - 1864 - 618 pages
...involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; «ml all persons held to service or labor as slaves are hereby declared fne " " Persons held to service or labor " — how ? ' As apprentices, or indentured servants? No,... | |
 | Nathan H. Parker - 1865 - 172 pages
...State, tiiero shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; and all...service or labor as slaves, are hereby declared free ; " " ISTow, therefore, by authority of the. Supreme Executive power vested in me by the Constitution... | |
 | 1865 - 494 pages
...state there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, and all...service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free." The governors of Kentucky and Delaware in their recent messages recommend emancipation. These facts... | |
 | Ethan Allen - 1866 - 178 pages
...State, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and all...service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free." 14. In June, the enemy crossed the Potomac again into Maryland, — in Montgomery county, opposite... | |
 | Isaac N. Arnold - 1866 - 748 pages
...State, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and all...service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free." * Thus, the organic law of the State was made expressly to declare that the citizen owed paramount... | |
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That hereafter, in this State, there shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and all persons held to service or labor as slaves are hereby declared free. 
