 | United States - 1887 - 734 pages
...evoked considerable debate, the conclusion of it all being the formal declaration "that congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the states, it remaining with the several states alone to provide any regulations therein... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...Benjamin Franklin as president of the society. Congress replied as follows : " That the Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the states ; it remaining with the several states alone to provide any regulations therein which humanity and... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1891 - 544 pages
...think proper to admit, cannot be prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808. " That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein,... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - United States - 1891 - 654 pages
...it was contained in one short sentence. " Congress," said the report of the House committee, "have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States." The vote was twenty-nine to twenty-five. From this wrangle the House came... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper - Political parties - 1892 - 1144 pages
...Representatives as early as 1790, and substantially ге-afKrmed in 1836, as follows : ''That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States to provide any regulations therein... | |
 | History - 1893 - 608 pages
..."Rise and Fall," I., 230 and quoting a report of a committee of Congress in 1790 that that body " have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in the different States, it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein... | |
 | Cornelius Beach Bradley - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1894 - 398 pages
...Northern men, and adopted by a House two-thirds of whose members were from the North, declaring that Congress has " no authority to interfere in the emancipation...or in the treatment of them in any of the States."] 20 . - The fears of the South, whatever fears they might have entertained, were allayed and quieted... | |
 | Daniel Webster - Compromise of 1850 - 1894 - 300 pages
...adopted, after much consideration, at the commencement of the Government—which was, that Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them, within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein,... | |
 | James Frith Jeffers, James Lawrence Nichols - Canada - 1896 - 602 pages
...House of Representatives as early as 1790, and substantially reaffirmed in 1836, as follows: "That Congress has no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves or in the treatment of them within any of the states; it remains with the several states to provide any regulations therein which... | |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - Slave trade - 1896 - 354 pages
...prohibited by Congress, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight. Secondly. That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulation therein,... | |
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That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the states; it remaining with the several states alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require. 
