 | 1878 - 598 Seiten
...legalized therein. It is also made the imperious duty of its legislature to pass laws, as soon as may be, "To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to, and settling in that State, under any pretence whatever." 542 543 If Missouri be permitted to introduce and legalize... | |
 | David A. McKnight - 1878 - 446 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...second, because in the article defining the legislative power of the General Assembly there was this injunction : " It shall be their duty, as soon as...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...which was presented contained a clause requiring the legislature to pass such laws as might be found necessary ' ' to prevent free negroes and mulattoes...settling 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 - 620 Seiten
...Sect. 26, g 4, of the Constitution of Missouri, made it the duty of the Legislature to pass laws: " To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming...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,... | |
 | Hermann Von Holst - 1881 - 626 Seiten
...III., Sect. 26, §4, of the Constitution of Missouri, made it the duty of the Legislature to pass laws: "To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
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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. 
