 That the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the Territories of the United States for their government; and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the Territories those twin...  The Tribune Almanac and Political Register - Page 191874Full view - About this book
 | Jacob William Schuckers - Slavery - 1874 - 714 pages
...any Territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained ; " and " that the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power...Territories of the United States for their government ; and that in the exercise of this power, it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...territory of the United States, while the present Constitution shall be maintained." "Resolved. That the Constitution confers upon Congress, sovereign...territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the... | |
 | Daniel Webster Wilder - History - 1875 - 692 pages
...institutions in their own way. "3. That we repudiate the dogma of the Republican party 'that Congress has sovereign power over the Territories of the United States for their government,' as a denial of the right and capacity of the people to govern themselves, and declare our devotion... | |
 | Edward McPherson - United States - 1872
...widows, and by the appointment and election of women to the superintendence of education, charities and other public trusts. The honest demands of this class...exercise of this power it is the right and duty of Congress to prohibit and extirpate, in the Territories, that relic of barbarism—polygamy; and we... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1876 - 894 pages
...federal constitution, the rights of the states, and the union of the states shall be preserved;" and that "the constitution confers upon congress sovereign...in the exercise of this power it is the right and the duty of congress to prohibit in the territories those twin relics of barbarism, polygamy and slavery."... | |
 | Alexander Harris - United States - 1876 - 530 pages
...sentiment of the Northern States. One of the resolutions of the Philadelphia Convention declared : " That the Constitution confers upon Congress, sovereign...Territories of the United States for their government ; and that in the exercise of this power, it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the... | |
 | M. A. Clancy - History - 1876 - 182 pages
...slavery in any territory of the United States while the present constitution shall be maintained. 2. That the constitution confers upon congress sovereign power...territories of the United States for their government, and that in the exercise of this power it is both the right and the duty of congress to prohibit in the... | |
 | Elias Nason, Thomas Russell - 1876 - 474 pages
...States while the present Constitution shall be maintained,' — pronounced through the ballot-box that ' the Constitution confers upon Congress sovereign power over the Territories of the United States ; and that, in the exercise of this power, it is both the right and the duty of Congress to prohibit... | |
 | United States - 1876 - 458 pages
...widows, and by the appointment and election of women to the superintendence of education, charities, and other public trusts ; the honest demands of this class of citizens for additional rights and privileges and immunities should be treated with respectful consideration. [Applanse.] Thirteenth.... | |
 | William Saunders - History - 1879 - 436 pages
...widows, and by the appointment and election of women to the superintendence of education, charities, and other public trusts. The honest demands of this class...power over the territories of the United States for then1 government, and in the exercise of this power it is the right and duty of Congress to prohibit... | |
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