Senator Toombs said that the opposition to the Kansas bill had continued because it was said to recognize the right of the people of a Territory, through the Territorial legislature, to establish or prohibit slavery.
It was not proper nor just to prohibit slavery in the Territories.
As there were but six States in favor of the proposition to prohibit slavery after 1800, it was stricken out.
I desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit slavery in all the Territories of the United States, north as well as south of the Missouri Compromise line?
A declaration by the Supreme Court of the United States that under the Constitution Congress possessed no power to prohibit slavery in the Federal Territories would by a single breath end the old and begin a new political era.
I am impliedly if not expressly pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States Territories.
I believe that the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the territories of the United States for their government; and that, in the exercise of its authority, it is its duty to prohibit slaveryor polygamy therein.
Suppose the territorial legislature attempts to prohibit slavery, and thus do what Congress itself cannot do in the territories.
He proposed to prohibit slavery in that portion of the Louisiana Purchase north of 36° 30' excepting Missouri.
John Quincy Adams doubted if Congress, under the American Constitution, had the right to prohibit slavery in a territory where it already existed.
On the one side there was a gain of one slave State; on the other side, a mere promise to prohibit slavery in future States.
The Representatives would not retreat from their decision toprohibit slavery in Missouri; the Senate was equally determined that Missouri should be admitted as a slave State.
I desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit slavery in all the Territories of the United States, North as well as South of the Missouri Compromise line?
I am impliedly, if not expressly, pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States Territories.
Congress, having no power to prohibit slavery, was bound to see that it was fully enjoyed.
He had told the people of Illinois that, in spite of the Constitution, the Supreme Court, the President and Congress, it was within the power of the inhabitants of a Territory to prohibit slaveryby their unfriendly attitude.
I'm impliedly, if not expressly, pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States Territories.
I desire to know whether he stands pledged to prohibit slavery in all the Territories of the United States, north as well as south of the Missouri Compromise line.
I am impliedly, if not expressly, pledged to a belief in the right and duty of Congress to prohibit slavery in all the United States Territories.
Congress did not, in the Territorial Act, prohibit slavery; but they did interfere with it, take control of it, in a more marked and extensive way than they did in the case of Mississippi.
From 1787 until the Missouri question came up, no successful attempt was made by Congress to prohibit slavery in any territory of the United States.
On the terms of this ordinance and its subsequent recognition under the Constitution, rests much of the argument of the advocates of Congressional intervention to prohibit slavery in the territories.
If the Supreme Court should decide against the right of a State to prohibit slavery, would he acquiesce?
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