 | David A. McKnight - 1878 - 446 pagina’s
...Line." She had inserted in her constitution a provision, authorizing her Legislature to enact a law, " to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in said State, under any pretext whatever." Because of this she had not yet been recognized as a State... | |
 | William Franklin Switzler - 1879 - 658 pagina’s
...this injunction : " 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...settling in this State, under any pretext whatsoever." It was maintained that this clause, which was the fouith of the thirtysixth section of the third article... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1879 - 460 pagina’s
...under which that State applied for admission into the Union, provided that it should be the duty of the legislature " to pass laws to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in the State, under any pretext whatever." One ground of objection to the admission of the State under... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1880 - 426 pagina’s
...presented contained a clause requiring the legislature to pass such laws as might be found necessary ' ' to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming...in this State, under any pretext whatsoever." The State was received into the 1 Virginia v. West Virginia, 11 Wall. 39 ; Kanawha Coal Co. v. Kanawha,... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1881 - 626 pagina’s
...of the resolution. Art. III., Sect. 26, § 4, of the Constitution of Missouri, made it the duty of the Legislature to pass laws : " To prevent free negroes...settling in this State under any pretext whatsoever." To be sure, as we have already seen, those who required the striking out of this clause M unconstitutional,... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1881 - 620 pagina’s
...letter of the resolution. Art. III., Sect. 26, g 4, of the Constitution of Missouri, made it the duty of the Legislature to pass laws: " To prevent free negroes...settling in this State under any pretext whatsoever." To be sure, as we have already seen, those who required the striking out of this clause as unconstitutional,... | |
 | George Washington Williams - 1882 - 640 pagina’s
...State. "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 whatever." Upon the motion to admit the State the vote stood : yeas, 79 ; nays, 93. Upon a second attempt... | |
 | William Carey Crane - 1884 - 700 pagina’s
...reassembling of Congress in 1820-21, to embody a provision requiring the Legislature of the new State to pass laws " to prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in the State," a new and more exciting debate followed ; which debate lasted through the short winter... | |
 | 1886 - 324 pagina’s
...apublie charge. It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary — 1. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this. State, under any pretext whatever, and 2. To oblige the owners of slaves to treat them with humanity, and to abstainfrom all... | |
 | John Frost - 1887 - 270 pagina’s
...shall be the duty of the General Assembly, 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 whatever." The Senate passed a resolution admitting the State of Missouri — but the House refused... | |
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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. 
