 | Lawrence O'Brien Branch - 1856 - 42 էջ
...the majority of the Legislature are opposed to slavery, there are a multitude of ways in which ihe slaveholder may be harassed and kept out by hostile...failure to provide remedies for the protection of his rightsi Practically, the institution can only be introduced and sustained where the majority are willing... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1857 - 490 էջ
...knows that if the majority of the Legislature are opposed to slavery, there are a multitude of ways in which the slaveholder may be harassed and kept out...sustained where the majority are willing to tolerate it; and one great advantage to the South of the Kansas-Nebraska act is, that hereafter Congress will stand... | |
 | Don Edward Fehrenbacher - 1981 - 340 էջ
...knows that if the majority of the Legislature are opposed to slavery, there are a multitude of ways in which the slaveholder may be harassed and kept out...sustained where the majority are willing to tolerate it." Similar statements were made by other southerners at about the same time. Douglas, however, had discreetly... | |
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All agree that it may be exercised at the time of framing a constitution, and it is a mere question of time. Every one knows that if the majority of the Legislature are opposed to slavery, there are a multitude of ways in which the slaveholder may be... 