...the constitution of Missouri reached Congress, Niles' Register pointed out that the clause directing the legislature to pass laws "to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming into and settling in the state, on any pretence whatever" would block admission into the Union. The...

...assembly, declared: 'It shall be their duty as soon a? may be to pass such laws as may be necessary to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatever.' "The election for state and other officers was held* in August...

...northern people had expected, or were willing to tolerate — one of its clauses being a command to the Legislature to pass laws "to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in, this State, under any pretext whatever." The whole question of admission was thereupon reopened. Northern...

...under which that State applied for admission into the Union, provided, that it should be the duty of the Legislature •" to pass laws to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from comiug to and settling in the State, under any pretext whatever." One ground of objection to the admission...

...only sanctioned slavery but enjoined the state legislature to pass such laws as might be necessary "to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state, under any pretext whatsoever." This had not been conceded or expected, and many found it...

...other states. "Sir, I cannot doubt, that the clause in the constitution of Missouri, which requires the legislature to pass laws to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from going to, and settling in, that state, is wholly incompatible with the constitution of the United States,...

...because in it there was a clause empowering the general assembly " to pass such laws as may be necessary to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretest whatever." The house refused, thereupon, to pass the resolution to admit....

...of slaves. ... It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary ... To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in this state, under any pretext whatsoever."4 The clause occasioned little stir but the institution of...

...Missouri's first state constitution of 1820 gave the legislature the duty to pass laws, among other matters, "To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state, under any pretext whatsoever."4 According to the 1820 federal census, there were 10,222...

...article said that it should be the duty of the general assembly to pass such laws as might be necessary "to prevent free Negroes and Mulattoes from coming to and settling in the state under any pretext whatsoever." The "fundamental condition" established by Congress for statehood was...