 | New York City Anti-Slavery Society - Abolitionists - 1833 - 90 pages
...law. We do not aim at any interference with the constitutional rights of the slave holding states, for Congress, as is well understood, has no power to abolish slavery in the several states. We see no absurdity in the use of immediate, as applied to these measures, nor do we transcend the... | |
 | Books - 1835 - 642 pages
...• ARTICLE 2. The object of this Society is the entire abolition of slavery in the United States. While it admits that each State in which slavery exists has, by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in that State, it shall aim to convince... | |
 | William Jay - Antislavery movements - 1835 - 230 pages
...rights of the slave-holding States; for Congress, as is well understood, has no power to abolish slaveiy in the several States." Address of the New-York City Anti-Slavery Society, p. 5. \ " We freely mid unanimously recognise the sovereignty of each State to legislate exclusively on the... | |
 | Slavery - 1838 - 148 pages
...SOCICTT ART. II. The object of this Society is the entire abolition of slavery in the United States. While it admits that each State in which slavery exists, has, by the Constitution of the United States, tlut exclusive right to legislate, in regard to its abolition in said State, it shall aim to convince... | |
 | William Jay - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 216 pages
...21. " We do not aim at any interference with the constitutional rights of the slave-holding States ; for Congress, as is well understood, has no power...it admits that each State in which slavery exists, has;by the Constitution of the United States exclusive right to legislate hi regard to its Abolition,... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 152 pages
...1835. Objects. The object of this Society is the entire abolition of slavery in the United States. While it admits that each state in which slavery exists, has, by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said state, it shall aim to convince... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 174 pages
...1835. Objects. The object of this Society is the entire abolition .of slavery in the United States. While it admits that each state in which slavery exists, has, by the Constitution of the United States, ihe exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said state, it shall aim to convince... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...SOCIETY. ART. II. — The object of this Society is the entire abolition of slavery in the United States. While it admits that each state in which slavery exists, has, by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said state, it shall aim to convince... | |
 | James Gillespie Birney, Franklin Harper Elmore - American Anti-Slavery Society - 1838 - 104 pages
...these words : — " The object of this society is the entire abolition of slavery in the United States. While it admits that each state, in which slavery...exists, has, by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said state, it shall aim to convince... | |
 | African Americans - 1838 - 400 pages
...which they formed for the American Anti-slavery Society, the admission we are now asked to expunge, that " each state in which slavery exists, has by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legisTate in regard to its abolition in said states." In 1834, this society... | |
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While it admits that each state in which slavery exists, has, by the Constitution of the United States, the exclusive right to legislate in regard to its abolition in said state, it shall aim to convince all our fellow-citizens, by arguments addressed... 
