 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1833 - 608 strani
...Missouri had formed a state constitution. When this constitution was presented to congress, in 18-20-21, a provision in it, which required the legislature...contest occupied a great part of the session, and it was finally determined, by a small majority, that Missouri should be admitted, upon the fundamental... | |
 | 1833 - 202 strani
...makes it the duty of the General Assembly, among other things, ' 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.' This constitution was brought before Congress at its next... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1855 - 968 strani
...clause making it the duty of the Legislature of that State to pass such laws as may be necessary " to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in, that State, under any pretext whatsoever ;" and it has become a question whether the clause in the... | |
 | Tennessee. Constitutional Convention - 1834 - 430 strani
...direct. Mr BLOUNT, the following : Resolved, That the Legislature be authorised to make provision by law to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this State, under any pretext whatsoever ; and as far as practicable, also, to prevent their coming... | |
 | 1837 - 394 strani
...charge. , It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second. To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 260 strani
...this state. " It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, "1. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state, under any pretext whatsoever." " Schools and the means of education shall for ever be encouraged... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, Return Jonathan Meigs - 1839 - 720 strani
...shows that the then Congress was of opinion that a clause in the Constitution of that State, directing the Legislature to pass laws, "to prevent free negroes...mulattoes from coming to and settling in the State," was a violation of the provision of the Constitution of the US in question. Accordingly, the resolution,... | |
 | Emma Willard - 1843 - 500 strani
...formed a state constitution ; a provision of which tated. required the legislature to pass a law " to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in the state." When the constitution was presented to congress, this provision was strenuously opposed. The contest... | |
 | Henry Clay - 1843 - 624 strani
...article making it the duty of the legislature ' as soon as might be to pass such hvvvs as were necessary to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in the state under any pretext whatever.' This clause called forth the most violent censure of the friends of restriction,... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1846 - 410 strani
...the duty of the general assembly, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First, To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state, under any pretext whatever ; provided, that nothing in this constitution shall be construed... | |
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It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary. First, To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in, this state, under any pretext whatsoever... 
