There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or... Proceedings and Collections - Page 79by Nebraska State Historical Society - 1892Full view - About this book
| George E. Baker - 1855 - 424 pages
...once with precision, amplification, solemnity, and emphasis, that there " shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." And they further ORDAINED and declared that... | |
| Benjamin Franklin Morris - 1856 - 420 pages
...the right of jurisdiction, by providing, in a fundamental article for the government of the country, "that there should be neither slavery nor involuntary...said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crime, •whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." Thi» solemn rebuke of slavery was given... | |
| George Tucker - 1856 - 672 pages
...number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand. ARTICLE 6. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; provided, always, that any person escaping into... | |
| Edward Coles - 1856 - 48 pages
...provided their constitutions be republican; and the sixth ordains that there shall neither be slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always that any person escaping into the... | |
| United States - 1856 - 350 pages
...number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand. ART. 6. There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: provided always, that any person escaping into the... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1856 - 176 pages
...declared to be unalterable, the sixth article of which provides that " tltere shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment for crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted," In pursuance of thU compact, all the... | |
| Horace Greeley - 1856 - 172 pages
...declared to be unalterable, the sixth article of which provides that " there shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment for crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted" In pursuance of this compact, all the... | |
| Benson John Lossing - 1857 - 702 pages
...more republican principle. The bill, also, provided and declared, that "there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted." Tbis ordinance was adopted on the 13th, after adding... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1857 - 260 pages
...people of the said Territory." The sixth article of that compact is, " there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided, always, that any person escaping into the... | |
| Henry Howe - 1857 - 504 pages
...the Territory of the united Slates, North- West of the river Ohio. " There shall be neither Slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said Territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; Provided, always, that any person escaping... | |
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