No Slave Hunting in the Old Bay State Speech of Charles C Burleigh At the Annu
No Slave Hunting in the Old Bay State Speech of Charles C Burleigh At the Annu
Charles C Charles Calistus Burleigh
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Now, if any body does not choose to accede to any of the new terms, of course he is not bound to obey the new Constitution. When Louisiana was admitted to the Union, the North ac- quiesced, and a new Constitution was made. That lasted until Missouri asked admission. There was nothing in the original Constitution that contemplated the admission of territory west of the Mississippi. The single fact that the Constitution did not confer the power on any department of the government to ad- mit new t...erritory is sufficient evidence that such ad- mission was not in the contemplation of the people ; and who will tell me that the people gave the power to do that which they never contemplated doing, and gave it without assigning any repository that should receive it ? "Who could acquire new territory ? Not the Executive, not the Judiciary, not the Legislative — not all together. There was no place where that power was put, and therefore we may reasonably in- er that the people never meant to give the power, and it never was conferred.
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