...does so because it "tends rather to Increase than abate the evils " of slavery: and he lays down " that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy." One nun alone could he induce to sign this protest wi:h fr:m, and that man was not seeking re-election....

...protest was presented to the House, which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals, to wit : " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having...policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tend rather to increase than abate its evils. " They believe that the Congress of the United States...

...protest was presented to the House, which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals, to v, it : " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having...policy; but that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tend rather to increase than abate its evils. " They believe that the Congress of the United States...

...House March 3rd, 1837 :— i " Resolutions on the subject of domestic slavery having passed both houses of the General Assembly at its present session, the...that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends to increase rather than abate its evils. " They believe that the Congress of the United States has...

...of the General Assembly at {to present cesnon, the undersigned hereby protest aifn'iuat tku pa»sage of the same. "They believe that the institution of...that the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends to increase rather than abate its evils. " They believe that the Congress of the United Btates has...

...protest was presented to the House, which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals, to wit : " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having...the undersigned hereby protest against the passage t>f the same. "They believe that the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy...

...leagues, his views relative to slavery, in the following protest, bearing date March 3d, 1837 :— " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having...the General Assembly, at its present session, the uadersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same. " They believe that the institution of...

...distinct avowal of the doctrine whose tinal ratification by the people he has sealed with his blood — that "the institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy."* His whole life was true to that conviction. His great campaign for the senatorship in 1858, was conducted...

...protest was presented to the House, which was read and ordered to be spread on the journals, to wit: " Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of tho General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of...

...while " the promulgation of abolition doctrines tends rather to increase than abate its evils," still, the " institution of slavery is founded on both injustice and bad policy," and Congress " has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia."...