Excerpt from Speeches of Hon.: Horatio Seymour, at the Conventions Held at Albany, January 31, 1861 and September 10, 1862 This controversy does not grow out of a claim by either party that the Constitution shall be changed, but with regard to the construction that should be given to that instrument. The South claim that they have a right to take their slaves into all the territories, by virtue of the Constitutional compact, as construed by the Supreme Court, and because slavery originally existed in them, with the ...
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Excerpt from Speeches of Hon.: Horatio Seymour, at the Conventions Held at Albany, January 31, 1861 and September 10, 1862 This controversy does not grow out of a claim by either party that the Constitution shall be changed, but with regard to the construction that should be given to that instrument. The South claim that they have a right to take their slaves into all the territories, by virtue of the Constitutional compact, as construed by the Supreme Court, and because slavery originally existed in them, with the exception of those gained from Mexico. They deny that slavery was abolished when they were added to our Union, and they deny the power of Congress to legislate against those rights of property which were recognized in our whole country at the time of the Revolution, and which were upheld by the laws of every State, save one, when the Constitution was formed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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