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Page 19
... persons on such lands will , of course , remain in the States till such cession is made . Nothing passes without such a cession , except what is an incident to the title and purposes of the General Government . " United States v . Ames ...
... persons on such lands will , of course , remain in the States till such cession is made . Nothing passes without such a cession , except what is an incident to the title and purposes of the General Government . " United States v . Ames ...
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... persons in other words , lands and tenements in the nature of private property are subjected to taxation , even while they belong to the Crown . - - – Thus the matter now stands . Lands belonging to the nation , which , it seems , even ...
... persons in other words , lands and tenements in the nature of private property are subjected to taxation , even while they belong to the Crown . - - – Thus the matter now stands . Lands belonging to the nation , which , it seems , even ...
Page 48
... person " who shall steal any negro or other slave , " or who shall counsel , hire , aid , abet , or command any person or persons " to do so , shall suffer death as a felon . The punishment has since been changed to imprisonment , for a ...
... person " who shall steal any negro or other slave , " or who shall counsel , hire , aid , abet , or command any person or persons " to do so , shall suffer death as a felon . The punishment has since been changed to imprisonment , for a ...
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... person , held to service " from the State , was made a distinct offence , for which the offender was made liable in an ... persons who shall hereafter be convicted of giving a pass to any slave , or per- son held to service , or shall be ...
... person , held to service " from the State , was made a distinct offence , for which the offender was made liable in an ... persons who shall hereafter be convicted of giving a pass to any slave , or per- son held to service , or shall be ...
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Charles Sumner. slave , or any person held to service , from this State , or by any other unlawful means depriving the master or owner of the service of his slave , or person held to service , for every such offence the party aggrieved ...
Charles Sumner. slave , or any person held to service , from this State , or by any other unlawful means depriving the master or owner of the service of his slave , or person held to service , for every such offence the party aggrieved ...
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Page 153 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 514 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Page 609 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 344 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 28 - January, 1819, shall remain exempt from any tax laid by order, or under any authority of the State, whether for State, county, or township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale...
Page 344 - It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Page 296 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 251 - Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees, and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited.
Page 130 - No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Page 266 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the...