| 1839 - 397 pages
...case already referred to, he said: "Historically, it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding States...their slaves, as property, in every State in the Union in which they might escape from the State where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of... | |
| Edward Prigg, Richard Peters - 1842 - 154 pages
...directly in judgment before us. Historically, it is well known, that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding states...from the state where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property... | |
| United States - 1845 - 816 pages
...United States, relating to persons owing service and labour in one state escaping into other states, was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding states...from the state where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1849 - 1138 pages
...following language: "Historically, it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure to the slaveholding States the complete right and title...slaves, as property, in every State in the Union into whnh they might escape from the State where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of the... | |
| Ohio. General Assembly - 1849 - 1106 pages
...uses the following language : " Historically, it was well known that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slave-holding States...from the State where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property... | |
| Louisiana. Supreme Court - 1849 - 814 pages
...must, therefore, be interpreted with reference to the evil which it proposed to remedy. Its object was to secure to the citizens of the slave-holding States,...from the State where they were held in servitude, to guard against the principles and doctrines prevalent in the non-slave holding States, by preventing... | |
| 1849 - 626 pages
...his decisions]- Judge Story said : "Historically, it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding States...ownership in their slaves, as property, in every State of the Union, into which they might escape from the State wherein they were held in servitude." . .... | |
| William Ingersoll Bowditch - 1849 - 182 pages
...^s. the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (16 Pet. Rep. 609, &c.). Judge Story delivered the opinion : — every State in the Union into which they might escape...from the State where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property... | |
| 1849 - 736 pages
...Historically, it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholdinc States the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves as property, in every State of the Union into which they might escape from the State wherein they were held in servitude." " The... | |
| Virginia - 1850 - 304 pages
...611, uses the following language: " Historically, it is well known that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding states...from the state where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property... | |
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