...liberty, and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not even in the largest majority. " SEC. 3. The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of an owner of a slave and its increase is the same, and as inviolable aS the right of the owner of any...

...will acmie. It seems to me that this is clearly unconstitutional. Article 2, section 22, provides that the right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction; and private property shall not be taken, appropriated or damaged for public use, without just compensation...

...voice of the Constitution in passing it. Article 2, section 22, of our Constitution reads as follows : "The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction; and private property shall not be taken, appropriated or damaged for public use, without just compensation...

...They are based on the robber plea : " They may take who have the power, And they may keep who can." If the right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, how happens it that the most sacred of all property rights — the right of man to himself — may...

...slavery upon the State was attempted by interpolating in the Bill of Rights a new declaration, that "the right of property is before and higher than any...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever." It required a civil war to correct the error made in 1792. The humble preacher delegates...

...their office conscientiously. The material provision respecting slavery was, verbatim, as follows: "The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of tho owner of a slave to such slave and his increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of any...

...as follows : " The right of property is before and higher than any consti- Lib. 28 : 107. tutional sanction ; and the right of the owner of a slave to such Dec. 22 ; Lib. 28:5. Lib. 28 : 23, 28; Wilson's J?ise and Fall of the Slave Power, 2 : 544' Lib. 28:28....

...section 3): " That the right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction ; that the right of the owner of a slave to such slave, and...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever." Mr. President, I regard that as the most atrocious sentiment ever wrapped up human language,...

...of the system is clearly expressed in a section of the Kentucky Constitution of 1850 as follows: " The right of property is before and higher than any...and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever." It was no more necessary,...

...date she incorporated into her or. ganic law the following provision (article 13, section 3) : " That the right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction ; that the right of the owner of a slave to such slave, and its increase, is the same and as inviolable...