 | Abraham Lincoln - Illinois - 1920 - 362 pages
...has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the District. The difference between these opinions and those contained in the above resolutions is... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - United States - 1921 - 292 pages
...has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the District. The difference between these opinions and those contained in the above resolutions is... | |
 | Clark Prescott Bissett - Presidents - 1923 - 266 pages
...has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the District. "The difference between these opinions and those contained in the said resolutions is... | |
 | William Eleazar Barton - Presidents - 1925 - 586 pages
...States has power under the Constitution to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the district. The difference between these opinions and those contained in the above resolutions, is... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - 1926 - 528 pages
...States has the power under the Constitution to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the district. The difference between these opinions and those contained in the resolutions is their... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln - 1927 - 474 pages
...has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the District. "The difference between these opinions and those contained in the above resolutions is... | |
 | Thomas P. Reep - New Salem (Menard County, Ill.) - 1927 - 158 pages
...States has the power under the constitution to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the district. "The difference between these opinions and those contained in the above resolutions is... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - 668 pages
...power, under the constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia,' which power, however, 'ought not to be exercised, unless at the request of the people of the District;' and that 'difference between these opinions and those 1 In 1835 an anti-slavery society... | |
 | Columbia Historical Society (Washington, D.C.) - Washington (D.C.) - 1913 - 248 pages
...Congress has the power under the Constitution to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the said District." The bill providing for the emancipation of the slaves in the District of Columbia... | |
 | Abraham Lincoln, Don Edward Fehrenbacher - History - 1977 - 292 pages
...States has the power, under the constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia; but that that power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of said District. The difference between these opinions and those contained in the said resolutions, is their reason... | |
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They believe that the Congress of the United States has the power, under the Constitution, to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, but that the power ought not to be exercised unless at the request of the people of the District. The difference... 
