 | Edmund Burke - 1849 - 1012 strani
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | 1849 - 982 strani
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1849 - 796 strani
...in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and 1 exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the peopJe of these Territories •will... | |
 | 1849 - 980 strani
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | 1849 - 620 strani
...assembled in convention to form state constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these territories will... | |
 | 1850 - 766 strani
...assembled in Convention to form State Constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves, whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits."* Mr. King states that the date of his arrival at San Francisco was on the morning of the fourth of June.... | |
 | Thomas Butler King - 1850 - 50 strani
...assembled in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits." In taking this step they proceeded with all the regularity which has ever characterized the American... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1850 - 412 strani
.... in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves •whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these Territories will... | |
 | Thomas Butler King - 1850 - 94 strani
...in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and 11 exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits." The people of California, therefore, acting in conformity with the views thus expressed, and what seemed... | |
 | John Stilwell Jenkins - 1850 - 414 strani
...assembled in convention to form State constitutions, will possess the sole and exclusive power to determine for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist within their limits. If Congress shall abstain from interfering with the question, the people of these Territories will... | |
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This legislation is founded upon principles as ancient as free government itself, and in accordance with them has simply declared that the people of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shall or shall not exist... 
