...person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; and, therefore the Government having no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and no more power to establish slavery than to establish a monarchy, should at once proceed to relieve...

...property, without due legal process. 5. Resolved, That in the judgment of this convention Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king; no more power to institute or establish slavery than to institute or establish a monarchy; no such...

...the anti-slavery principles of the platform. The convention declared that Congress hail •' no move power to make a slave than to make a king," and that...the national government to relieve itself of "all rcspon. sibility for the existence or continuance of slavery wherever the government possessed constitutional...

...composed of these two partly incongruous elements, nominated Van Buren and CF Adams. Its resolutions declared that Congress had no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and ought to keep slavery out of the Territories. The " Free-Soilers " polled 291,263 votes in 1848. They...

...(1889-1892). 156 SOME WHO OPPOSED. on a platform declaring that the government of the United States had no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and that it should at once proceed to relieve itself from responsibility for the existence of slavery; for it possessed...

...(1881), and under Harrison (1889-1892). on a platform declaring that the government of the United States had no more power to make a slave than to make a king, and that it should at once proceed to relieve itself from responsibility for the existence of slavery; for it possessed...

...Vice-President, on an abolition platform, whose chief cornerstone was the declaration that the government had no more power to make a slave than to make a king — as a coterie of fanatics the dangerous character of whose principles was thus personified in the...

...property without due legal process. "Resolved, That, in the judgment of this convention, Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king ; no more power to institute or establish slavevy than to institute or establish a monarchy. No such...

...that Congress should not interfere with slavery within the limits of any state, and that "Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king." It should prohibit slavery in the territories, and prevent its extension into new ones. The party demanded...

...property, without due legal process. 5. Resolved, That in the judgment of this convention Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king; no more power to institute or establish slavery than to institute or establish a monarchy. No such...