He and others of the concurring justices held that the inhabitants at the time of the purchase, also all immigrants after the cession, were protected in the right to hold slaves in the entire purchase.
This fate was largely due to the claim of its original inhabitants that they were secured the right to hold slaves by the treaty of cession from France.
A question has arisen in regard to the right to hold slaves in the Territory of Nebraska.
The acknowledgment, therefore, of the right to hold slaves, does not involve the acknowledgment of the right to adopt measures adapted and intended to perpetuate their present mental and physical degradation.
Wayland argues, if the right to hold slaves be conceded, "there is of course conceded all other rights necessary to insure its possession.
How could you, having sworn to support the Constitution, and believing that it guaranteed the right to hold slaves in the Territories, assist in legislation intended to defeat that right?
And if that is true in regard to a fugitive-slave law, is the right to have fugitive slaves reclaimed any better fixed in the Constitution than the right to hold slaves in the Territories?
And a land tax, unaccompanied with a tax on slaves, would be very unpopular in those States, as it would throw too great a burden upon farmers who did not hold slaves, and fall too lightly upon those whose property chiefly consisted of slaves.
It was their duty, however, to remedy evils; they were unfortunately placed in a situation which obliged them to hold slaves, but they did not wish to extend the mischief.
Soon after her decease, John Woolman began his labors in our society, and instead of disowning a member for testifying against slavery, they have for sixty-two years positively forbidden their members to hold slaves.
If slaveholders are determined tohold slaves as long as they can, let them not dare to say that the God of mercy and of truth ever sanctioned such a system of cruelty and wrong.
Soon after her decease, John Woolman began his labors in our society, and instead of disowning a member for testifying against slavery, they have for fifty-two years positively forbidden their members to hold slaves.
Hence, while we do not say that modern Christian nations are bound to hold slaves, we do assert that no people sin by merely holding slaves, unless the place can be shown where God has uttered a subsequent prohibition.
Will any one say that the authority given by Moses to his fellow-citizens to hold slaves was not just as good to enable subsequent generations of Hebrews to hold slaves?
How could you, having sworn to support the Constitution, and believing it guaranteed the right to hold slaves in the Territories, assist in legislation intended to defeat that right?
And if that is true in regard to a Fugitive Slave law, is the right to have fugitive slaves reclaimed any better fixed in the Constitution than the right to hold slaves in the Territories?
But if what President Wayland says about slavery be true, then tohold slaves is a most heinous sin; and he who does so, and never repents, can never visit Paul in heaven.
Among them, one law permitted the Israelites to buy, and inherit, and to hold slaves.
How could you, having sworn to support the Constitution, and believing it guaranteed the right to hold slaves in the Territories, assist in legislation intended to defeat that right?
A person of Virginia has asserted his right to hold slaves in New York on the way to Texas; and this claim is still pending before the highest judicial tribunal of the land.
No person who is conscientiously opposed to holding slaves, or who does not admit the right to hold slaves in this Territory, shall sit as a juror on the trial of any prosecution for any violation of any Sections of this Act.
The question is plainly and distinctly presented to us, whether we will assent to a constitutional recognition of the right to hold slavesin a portion of the Territories of the United States.
We claim that the right to hold slaves is a natural right, recognized by the law of nations, and of the world.
But our surprise is increased when we consider that, even could it be made appear that the patriarchs did hold slaves, this fact of itself, would afford not the slightest apology for slaveholding now.
The very best of men hold slaves, yea, it is, they tell us, the duty of good men under some circumstances to hold slaves.
They are apt to settle down in the belief that it is right to hold slaves, and the height of impertinence for any one to meddle with them about it.
It is just as great a crime to aid in elevating a slave-holder to the presidency, as it is to hold Slaves.
Very few ministers refuse to hold Slaves, and neither ministers nor church members are ever censured for the act.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hold slaves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
