...be admitted, and that the other territories should form state constitutions -to suit themselves, and should be admitted into the Union with or without slavery as their constitutions might prescribe. These recommendations were not acceptable to the slaveholding leaders, many of whom...

...be admitted, and that the other territories should form state constitutions to suit themselves, and should be admitted into the Union with or without slavery as their constitutions might prescribe. These recommendations were not acceptable to the slaveholding leaders, many of whom...

...Territories, while they are Territories, and a guarantee that when they ask for admission as States they shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as their Constitutions may prescribe. (6) The right of transit through free States with slave property. (Alabama Convention,...

...Territories, while they are Territories, and a guarantee that when they ask for admission as States they shall be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as their Constitutions may prescribe. (6) The right of transit through free States with slave property. (Alabama Convention,...

...territory north of 36° SO7. It was now proposed that a State or States formed from the Nebraska territory should be admitted into the Union "with or without slavery, as their Constitution may prescribe at the time." With an ambition to be President and the desire, therefore,...

...New Mexico and Utah territorial governments providing that when ready for statehood the territories should be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitutions might prescribe. (A concession to the South.) (A concession to the South.) (3) To prohibit the slave...

...of the people in their right to form state constitutions to suit themselves, and advocated that they should be admitted into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitutions ordained. Moreover, he effectually quelled the ardour of the revolutionaries by declaring, "Disunion...

...organize New Mexico and Utah as Territories and provide that when ready for statehood the Territories should be admitted into the Union with or without slavery as their constitutions might prescribe at the time of their admission ; to pass a strong fugitive slave law, one that would...

...either to permit or to ban slavery. It provided that any state formed from these territories might be admitted into the Union, with or without slavery, as their constitutions might prescribe. But the crucial question was: What would be the status of slavery in the territories...