...Stat. 27. Section 1 of the Act provided: ". . . That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not...slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State...

...right and constitutional power to pass the bill which I have proposed, protecting the inhabitants, of every race and color, without regard to any previous condition of slavery, in all their civil and political rights, including the right of suffrage. The Dred Scott decision is...

...the constitution of the United States, namely : "ARTICLE THIRTEEN. " SECTION 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment fur crime, whereof the party shall have beon duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or in any place subject to their jurisdiction....

...denied to negroes, mulattocs, freedmen, refugees, or any other persons, on accountof race, color, or any previous condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall nave been duly convicted, or wherein they or any of them are subjected...

...United States of America in Congress assembled, That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians, not...slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right in every State...

...competent jurisdiction. By that act it is enacted " that all persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not...slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the same right, in every State...

...EIGHTS BILL, AS ADOPTED BY CONOEES8, MARCH, 1866. § 1. That all persons in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not...to any previous condition of Slavery or involuntary service, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall...

...EIGHTS BILL. AS ADOPTED BY CONGRESS, MABOH, 1866. § 1. That all persons in the United States, and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not...to any previous condition of Slavery or involuntary service, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall...

...persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians, not taxed, aro hereby declared to be citizens of the United States;...condition of slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a pncishment for crime whereof the party shall hayebeen duly convicted, shall haire the same right in...

...VINDICATION. 1. All persons bom in the United States,, and not subject to anyforeign power, excluding Indiana not taxed, are hereby declared. to be citizens of...without regard to any previous condition of slavery orinvoluntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof +he party shall have been duly convicted,...