| Thomas Fenner Curtis - Baptism - 1855 - 66 pages
...national. In 1787 the act for the government of the North-west Territory provided that " no person should ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiment in the said Territory." Nothing, however, had been done by Congress to secure religious liberty... | |
| George Tucker - History - 1856 - 672 pages
...States in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit : ARTICLE 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and...worship, or religious sentiments, in the said territory. ARTICLE 2. The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ... | |
| James Pinkney Hambleton - Virginia - 1856 - 564 pages
...ever blessed the earth. The first — -first article of that venerable statute runs thus : " Art. I. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly...worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory." We trust that no demagogue will interpose here, the shallow quibble, that to insult a citizen, with... | |
| James Pinkney Hambleton - History - 1856 - 550 pages
...ever blessed the earth. The first—;-first article of that venerable statute runs thus : " Art. I. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly...worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory." Again, that vast territory, acquired by the Louisiana purchase, stretching from the Pacific to the... | |
| Jacob Ferris - Mississippi River Valley - 1856 - 390 pages
...unless by common consent." Among them are the following : PERMANENT TERRITORIAL LAWS. 157 "No person shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments. " No law shall be passed that shall in any manner whatever interfere with or affect private interests... | |
| Jacob Ferris - Mississippi River Valley - 1856 - 366 pages
..."to remain forever unalterable, unless by common consent." Among them are the following: "No person shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments. " No law shall be passed that shall in any manner whatever interfere with or affect private interests... | |
| James Handasyd Perkins, James R. Albach - Indians of North America - 1857 - 1038 pages
...TERRITORY. 1787. the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: "No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly...worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory. " The inhabitants of the said territory shall always be entitled to the benefits of the writ of habeas... | |
| Michigan - 1857 - 840 pages
...consent, to wit : ARTICLE I. No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and order! yrwigious wormanncr, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said Territory. ARTICLE II. The inhabitants of the said Territory shall always be entitled JJl*.^!*^^ to the benefits... | |
| Michigan, Thomas McIntyre Cooley - Law - 1857 - 828 pages
...to wit : ARTICLE I . No person demc-ming himself in a peaceable and orderly R«»giou« wormimner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said Territory. ARTICLE II. The inhabitants of the suid Territory shall always be entitled Jj!"^*u°fJ|SJ". to the... | |
| John Brown Dillon - Indiana - 1859 - 692 pages
...States in the said territory, and for ever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ART. 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and...orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his node of worship er religious sentiments in the said territory. ART. 2. The inhabitants of the said... | |
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