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Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Student Casebook to Issues ...
by Claudia Durst Johnson - 1996 - 246 pages
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The Southern literary messenger, Volume 20

1854 - 788 pages
...there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted to be personally guilty." Mr. Chase argues from this, very absurdly we must say, that if this proviso...
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The Nebraska Question: Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate by Mr ...

Edward Everett, Charles Sumner - 1854 - 234 pages
...there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the said States, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted to have been personally guilty." Let it be noted and remembered that this proviso applied not only...
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The Nebraska Question: Comprising Speeches in the United States Senate

1854 - 144 pages
...excepting only such part thereof as is included within the limits of the State contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall be and is 1/ereby for ever prohibited : Provided,...
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Echoes from the Cabinet: Comprising the Constitution of the United States ...

1855 - 124 pages
...in the usual form of territorial bills, the 8th section only relating to the slavery question.) And be it further enacted, That in all that territory...any person escaping into the same, from whom labor (69) or service is lawfully claimed, in any state or territory of the United States, such fugitive...
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The Congressional Globe, Volume 31

United States. Congress - 1855 - 466 pages
...lies north of 3C° 30' north latitude, not included within the limits of the Spue contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise...shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited : Provided alaayi, That any person escaping into ihe came, from whom labor or service i? lawfully claimed, in...
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The American Statesman: A Political History Exhibiting the Origin, Nature ...

Andrew White Young - 1855 - 1032 pages
...and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise...convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited." Now, sir, what is that provision ? It is intervention north of the line of 36° 30', and non-intervention...
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Annals of the Congress of the United States, Volume 1; Volume 35

United States. Congress - 1855 - 714 pages
...the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and heri'by. forever prohibited: Provided, always, That any person...lawfully claimed in any State or Territory of the United States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or...
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The Whig Almanac and United States Register for ...

1849 - 516 pages
...and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise...have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, for ever prohibtad Provided always, that any person eacapng into the same, from whom labor or service...
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The Life of William H. Seward with Selections from His Works

George E. Baker - 1855 - 436 pages
...and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise...have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, for ever prohibited : Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or...
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Pennsylvania Archives, Volume 11

1855 - 794 pages
...territory, otherwise than in punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, that any person escaping into the...from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original states, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming...
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