 It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second.  A History of the United States of America - Page 359by Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1823 - 400 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1860 - 818 pages
...words : " It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, first, to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this State, under any pretext whatsoever." Nearly the whole of the second session of the 16th Congress... | |
 | William O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...state. " It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, " First, to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in, this state, under any pretext whatever." The last requirement was considered a palpable violation of... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...State. ... It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First, to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in, this State, under any pretext whatever. The North, still smarting under a sense of its defeat on the... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...State. ... It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First, to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling In, this State, under any pretext whatever. The North, still smarting under a sense of its defeat on the... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Conflict of laws - 1862 - 854 pages
...contrary to law. 4. To permit emancipation on giving security, Ac. It shall be their duty to pass laws: 1. "To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this State under any pretext whatsoever." 2. " To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity... | |
 | Henry Clay - United States - 1863 - 830 pages
...article making it the duty of the legislature ' as soon as might be to pass such laws as were necessary to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in the state under any pretext whatever.' This clause called forth the most violent censure of the friends of restriction,... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - Constitutional history - 1870 - 942 pages
...pretext of this refusal so to recognize her, was, that the Constitution of Missouri, as formed, directed the Legislature to pass laws to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from going to or settling in the State. It was pretended, that this was in violation of the Constitution... | |
 | Ninian Wirt Edwards, Ninian Edwards - Illinois - 1870 - 572 pages
...'that it shall be the duty of the Legislature, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in that State, under any pretense whatsoever ;' a provision, said he, which, notwithstanding their competency... | |
 | Ninian Wirt Edwards, Ninian Edwards - Illinois - 1870 - 554 pages
...'that it shall be the duty of the Legislature, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in that State, under any pretense whatsoever;' a provision, said he, which, notwithstanding their competency... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - Law reports, digests, etc - 1875 - 848 pages
...that State applied for admission into the Union, provided, that it should be the duty *of [ * 588 ] the legislature "to pass laws to prevent free negroes...mulattoes from coming to and settling in the State, under any pretext whatever." One ground of objection to the admission of the State under this constitution... | |
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