...slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein which humanity and true policy may require." This entry might have been rescinded, but now a clause of the Constitution, supreme above the powers of...

...the House of Representatives, in Committee of the Whole, on the 23d day of March, 1790, resolved, ' That Congress have no authority to interfere in the...the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.' " I have thought...

...in that legislative tribunal to interfere with slavery, and it was — "Resolved, That Congress has no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves,...in the treatment of them within any of the states ;'_it remaining with the several states alone to provide any regulations therein which humanity and...

...Congress, prior to the year 1808.' ' That Congress have no authority to interfere in the eman' cipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any...' the States; it remaining with the several States alone to pro' vide any regulation therein, which humanity and true policy ' may require.' On November...

...Congress, prior to the year 1808.' ' That Congress have no authority to interfere in the eman' cipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any...' the States; it remaining with the several States alone to pro' vide any regulation therein, which humanity and true policy ' may require.' On November...

...Congress which assembled under the Constitution, and by that body ordered to be entered on the Journal, ' That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves or the treatment of them in the different States, it remaining with the several States alone to provide...

...was set at rest, however, by a resolution passed in 1790, as follows: " Resoh'cd, That Congress has no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves,...of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein which humanity and true policy may require." This resolution...

...a resolution passed in 1790, as follows: " Resolved, That Congress has no authority to interfere iu the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of...the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide' any regulations therein which humanity and true policy may require." This resolution...

...disposed of and forgotten, but not until the adoption of the following important resolution: " Eesolved, That Congress have no authority to interfere in the...emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the states; it remaining with the several states alone to provide rules and regulations therein,...

...slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein which humanity and true policy may require." This resolution was passed in consequence of the presentation of two petitions to Congress, both of them on the part...