 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
 | 1886 - 324 pages
...apublie charge. It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary — 1. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this. State, under any pretext whatever, and 2. To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity,... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1887 - 620 pages
...State at once, Mr. Lowndes, of the House committee, stating that the objectionable clause " preventing free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in the State" was held as repugnant to the Federal Constitution which provides that " the citizens of each State shall... | |
 | John Frost - Death - 1887 - 270 pages
...shall be the duty of the General Assembly, 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 this State, under any pretext whatever." The Senate passed a resolution admitting the State of Missouri... | |
 | 1891 - 608 pages
...of owners, or to prevent immigrants from bringing slaves into the state with them, and directed it to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in the state under any pretext. Chiefly through the influence of Henry Clay (qv), a compromise was effected', by... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 788 pages
...of owners, or to prevent Immigrants from bringing slaves into the state with them, and directed It to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in the state under any pretext. Chiefly through the influence of Henry Clay (qv), a compromise was effected, by... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Political Science - 1898 - 552 pages
...made a place where free white men could live. These are old arguments, and those who read necessary to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in. this State under any pretext whatever," etc. — Missouri constitution of 1820, Art. iii., Sec. 26.... | |
 | Susan Bullitt Dixon ("Mrs. Archibald Dixon, ") - Missouri compromise - 1899 - 654 pages
...Article of the ConstU — tution of Missouri, by which the Legislature of the State has been directed to pass laws 'to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling !tn the State,' has been construed to apply to such of that class as are citizens of the United States,... | |
 | Charles Henry Peck - United States - 1899 - 508 pages
...formal admission into the Union. It contained a provision directing the legislature to enact a law " to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in, said State on any pretext whatever." This was charged to be a violation of the federal Constitution,... | |
 | William Patrick Willey - West Virginia - 1901 - 284 pages
..."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 this State, under any pretext whatever." You will perceive that this clause is almost identical with... | |
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