 | Henry Clay - 1963 - 950 pagina’s
...other states. "Sir, I cannot doubt, that the clause in the constitution of Missouri, which requires the legislature to pass laws to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from going to, and settling in, that state, is wholly incompatible with the constitution of the United States,... | |
 | 1881 - 1148 pagina’s
...because in it there was a clause empowering the general assembly " to pass such laws as may be necessary to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretest whatever." The house refused, thereupon, to pass the resolution to admit. Much the same feeling... | |
 | Gerald T. Dunne - 1993 - 250 pagina’s
...of slaves. ... It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary ... To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in this state, under any pretext whatsoever."4 The clause occasioned little stir but the institution of slavery did. John BC Lucas published... | |
 | Harriet C. Frazier - 2004 - 228 pagina’s
...Missouri's first state constitution of 1820 gave the legislature the duty to pass laws, among other matters, "To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state, under any pretext whatsoever."4 According to the 1820 federal census, there were 10,222 slaves and 347 free Negroes in... | |
 | Thomas Morris Spencer - 2004 - 253 pagina’s
...they were explicitly codified in the 1820 constitution of Missouri, which obligated the legislature "[t]o prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming...to, and settling in this state, under any pretext whatsoever."13 The constitutional mandate to exclude free blacks from Missouri emerged from a struggle... | |
 | Michael G. Chiorazzi, Marguerite Most - 2005 - 706 pagina’s
...article said that it should be the duty of the general assembly to pass such laws as might be necessary "to prevent free Negroes and Mulattoes from coming to and settling in the state under any pretext whatsoever." The "fundamental condition" established by Congress for statehood... | |
 | Stephen Aron - 2006 - 342 pagina’s
...emancipated slaves to depart the state immediately. But the proposed charter did make it a duty of the legislature to pass laws "to prevent free negroes...to. and settling in this state, under any pretext whatsoever."57 United in their defense of slavery, delegates did divide on a number of issues. As with... | |
 | David P. Currie - 2007 - 341 pagina’s
...in its constitution a provision requiring the legislature "to pass such laws as may be necessary ... to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this State ...." To mollify Northerners who argued that some free blacks were citizens of other states and 124.... | |
 | 498 pagina’s
...public charge. It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First, To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming...settling in, this state, under any pretext whatsoever; and, Second, To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with huniannity, and to abstain from all... | |
 | John Van Houten Dippel - 2005 - 702 pagina’s
...restrictions in slave states like Delaware, Article 3, Section 26 required the General Assembly to enact laws to "prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this State, under any pretext whatsoever."2 On the surface, this provision appeared to be nothing more than a gratuitous retaliatory... | |
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It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second. 
