 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1855 - 966 pages
...division, of the 6th article of the same constitution, are the words : " The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners." Mr. S. observed, that he read this last part of that constitution because it was nearly... | |
 | Constitutions, State - 1855 - 576 pages
...terms as the legislature may from time to time deem proper. Slaves, § 1. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, unless where the slave shall have rendered to the state some distinguished service; in... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 964 pages
...division, of the 6th article of the same constitution, are the words : " The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners." Mr. S. observed, that he read this last part of that constitution because it was nearly... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...admission of Arkansas with the clause in her constitution prohibiting the legislature from passing laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners. He concurred with his constituents in condemning the clause " as anti-republican, as wrong on general... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hall - Political parties - 1856 - 560 pages
...provisions of her constitution in respect to slavery ; one of which is, that ' the legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of their owners, nor without paying their owners, previous to such emancipation, a full equivalent, in... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...State.' Arkansas accepted the challenge, and named as her rider, ' The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners.' Thus mounted, these two States, the one free and the other slave, started together twenty years ago,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 440 pages
...State.' Arkansas accepted the challenge, and named as her rider, - The General Assembly shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners.' Thus mounted, these two States, the one free and the other slave, started together twenty years ago,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 820 pages
...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever Sac. 2. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in swney for the slaves... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1858 - 820 pages
...trial, and punishment, according to law. , ARTICLE VII.—Slavery. SEC. 2. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners, previous to their emancipation, a full equivalent in money for the slaves... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1858 - 772 pages
...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever. SEC. 2. The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without the consent of the owners, or without paying the owners previous to their emancipation a full equivalent in money for the slaves... | |
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State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States... 
