 The right of property is before and higher than any Constitutional sanction; and the right of the owner of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.  The Journal of Negro History - Page 253edited by - 1917Full view - About this book
 | Thomas B. Martin - Equity - 1901 - 660 pages
...the land."13 Again, our Bill-of-Rights, Article IT, Section 23 of the Constitution, declares that, "The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction ; and private property shall not be taken, appropriated, or (13.) Constitution of Arkansas, Art. II, $ 21.... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 458 pages
...incorporated in it which was put forth editorially in the ' Union.' What is it? " ' Article 7, section 1. The right of property is before and higher than any...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever.' " Then in the schedule is a provision that the constitution may be amended after 1864 by... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - Indians of North America - 1905 - 596 pages
...property in slaves now in this Territory shall be in no measure interfered with." It continued further: "The right of property is before and higher than any...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever." A limiting provision forbidding the altering of the constitution until after the year 1864,... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - 1903 - 404 pages
...on the constitution a clause declaring, in the language of the statesmen of the cotton States, that "the right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction, and the right of the owners of a slave to such slave and its increase is the same and as inviolable as the right of the... | |
 | David George Ritchie - Civil rights - 1903 - 332 pages
...State of Kansas, and adopted by the pro-slavery party in 1857, the 7th article contains these words : " The right of property is before and higher than any constitutional sanction [Locke's theory, it will be noted, as distinct from Hobbes's], and the right of the owner of a slave... | |
 | Northwest, Pacific - 1906 - 812 pages
...elected a constitutional convention which drew up the famous Lecompton Constitution which declared: "The right of property is before and higher than any...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever." This constitution with a special article on slavery was to be submitted in such a way that... | |
 | Bar Association of Arkansas - Bar associations - 1920 - 666 pages
...protection of property rights notwithstanding the Constitution prescribes (section 22, article 2), that "the right of property is before and higher than any Constitutional sanction." The effect of the court 's construction on special legislation in this State, will not square, in its... | |
 | William Watts Folwell - Dakota Indians - 1924 - 528 pages
...constitution there was submitted the question of retaining or rejecting the following provisions: (i) "The right of property is before and higher than any...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever"; (2) "The legislature shall have no power to pass laws for the emancipation of slaves without... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1981 - 340 pages
...devoted entirely to slavery. Probably reflecting the influence of the Dred Scott decision, it proclaimed: "The right of property is before and higher than any...inviolable as the right of the owner of any property whatever." Here, imbedded in a prospective state constitution was a proslavery version of the "higher... | |
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