...upon the sectional issue of domestic slavery, and concerning the reserved rights of the States : " 1. That Congress has no power, under the Constitution,...that such States are the sole and proper judges of every thing appertaining to their own affairs not prohibited by the Constitution ; that all efforts...

...In that convention, which nominated Lewis Cass and William 0. Butler, this resolution was passed : ;'That Congress has no power, under the constitution,...domestic institutions of the several states, and that suc'i states are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited...

...upon the sectional issue of Domestic Slavery, and concerning the reserved rights of the states : 1. That Congress has no power under the Constitution,...others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the...

...convention at Baltimore, in 1852, to resolve and pledge themselves to the nation as follows, to wit: "That Congress has no power under the Constitution...affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution; that :ill efforts made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient'...

...the sectional issue of domestic slavery, and concerning the reserved rights of the States — " 1. That Congress has no power under the Constitution...domestic institutions of the several States, and that all such States are the sole and proper judges of every thing appertaining to their own affairs not...

...subject is in these words. I read just so much of it as is applicable to my present remarks. • " That Congress has no power, under the Constitution,...own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution." I take it that this language, thus far, is language which meets a willing and ready response from every...

...Constitution to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that all such States are the sole and proper judges of everything...others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of Slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the...

...which swept the alien and sedition laws from our statute book. Resolved^ That Congress has no puwer under the Constitution to interfere with, or control...judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, and prohibited by the Constitution ; that all efforts of the Abolitionists or others, made to induce...

...subject of slavery, the platforms of the two conventions agree. The democratic convention declared : " That congress has no power under the constitution...that such states are the sole and proper judges of every thing appertaining to their own affairs, and dangerous consequences ; and that all such efforts...

...agitation identically the same, word for word, in each and all of those platforms. This is the section: " That Congress has no power, under the Constitution,...several States ; and that such States are the sole judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs not prohibited by the Constitution ; that all...