 | Edmund Burke - History - 1849 - 1012 pages
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | Books - 1849 - 980 pages
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | History - 1849 - 982 pages
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1849 - 796 pages
...in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and 1 exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the peopJe of these Territories •will... | |
 | History, Modern - 1849 - 620 pages
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | Thomas Butler King - California - 1850 - 94 pages
...in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and 11 exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits." The people of California, therefore, acting in conformity with the views thus expressed, and what seemed... | |
 | Thomas Butler King - California - 1850 - 50 pages
...assembled in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits." In taking this step they proceeded with all the regularity which has ever characterized the American... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1850 - 414 pages
...assembled in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these Territories will... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - Presidents - 1850 - 412 pages
.... in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves •whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these Territories will... | |
 | Periodicals - 1850 - 762 pages
...assembled in Convention to form State Constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves, whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits."* Air. King states that the date of his arrival at San Francisco was on the morning of the fourth of... | |
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This legislation is founded upon principles as ancient as free government itself, and, in accordance with them, has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist... 
