 | 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... | |
 | Howard Louis Conard - Missouri - 1901 - 810 pages
...to the provision making it the duty of the General Assembly "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 whatsoever." The result was that not until February of 1821 was a resolution... | |
 | La Fayette Wilbur - Vermont - 1902 - 420 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.' "These powers, restrictions, and provisions, to legalize... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 720 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... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 720 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. 
