 | Oliver Cromwell Gardiner - 1848 - 356 Seiten
...specifically conferred by the constitution or derived by just implication from them. Resolved, That it is the duty of the federal government to relieve itself...for the existence or continuance of slavery wherever that government possesses constitutional authority to legislate on that subject, and is thus responsible... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. Senate - 1849 - 792 Seiten
...That it is tho duty of the federal government, to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, and to relieve itself from all responsibility for the...slavery wherever the government possesses constitutional authority to legislate on that subject. 7. Resolved, That the people of Ohio, feeling that they are... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1849 - 898 Seiten
...country, or derived by any just implication therefrom. Resolved, That it is the duty of the general government to relieve itself from all responsibility for the existence or continuance of slavery and the slave trade wherever it possesses the constitutional power to legislate upon that subject,... | |
 | New York (State) - 1850 - 894 Seiten
...liberty to the people of the United States and their posterity, therefore the federal government ought to relieve itself from all responsibility for the existence or continuance of slavery or the slave trade, wherever it has the constitutional power over those subjects, and our senators... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1850 - 842 Seiten
...resolution by inserting after the word " posterity," the words, -' therefore the Federal Government ought to relieve itself from all responsibility for the existence or continuance of slavery or the slave trade, wherever it has the constitutional power over those subjects, and." The President... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1851 - 780 Seiten
...view that it takes of the spirit of the constitution, and it maintains that " it is the duty of the government to relieve itself from all responsibility...the existence or continuance of slavery, wherever that government has constitutional power to legislate on the subject, and is consequently responsible... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 328 Seiten
...which should never have been departed from, the government ought to return.' " It declared ' that it is the duty of the Federal Government to relieve itself...for the existence or continuance of slavery wherever that Government possesses constitutional authority to legislate on that subject, and is thus responsible... | |
 | Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 340 Seiten
...which should never have been departed from, the government ought to return.' " It declared ' that it is the duty of the Federal Government to relieve itself...for the existence or continuance of slavery wherever that Government possesses constitutional authority- to legislate on that subject, and is thus responsible... | |
 | Joshua Reed Giddings - 1853 - 538 Seiten
...not participate. One of our resolutions adopted at Buffulo was in these words : " Saoltsd, That it is the duty of the Federal Government to relieve itself...the existence or continuance of slavery, wherever it possesses constitutional authority to legislate on that subject." This resolution is in direct and... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1856 - 420 Seiten
...specially conferred by the Constitution, or derived by just implication from them. Seiohed, That it is the duty of the Federal Government to relieve itself...the existence or continuance of slavery, wherever that Government possesses Constitutional authority to legislate on that subject, and is thus responsible... | |
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... Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king; no more power to institute or establish slavery than to institute or establish a monarchy. 
