 | 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Presidents - 1877 - 738 pages
...to be the duty of the General Assembly, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may bo necessary " to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in said State, under any pretext whatsoever." This last clause is supposed by some to he repugnant to... | |
 | Vermont - 1878 - 598 pages
...legalized therein. It is also made the imperious duty of its legislature to pass laws, as soon as may be, "To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in that State, under any pretence whatever." 542 543 If Missouri be permitted to introduce and legalize... | |
 | David A. McKnight - Election law - 1878 - 446 pages
...Line." She had inserted in her constitution a provision, authorizing her Legislature to enact a law, " to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in said State, under any pretext whatever." Because of this she had not yet been recognized as a State... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Judges - 1879 - 460 pages
...under which that State applied for admission into the Union, provided that it should be the duty of 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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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. 
