The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Speech of Joseph K Edgerton
The Relations of the Federal Government to Slavery Speech of Joseph K Edgerton
Edgerton Joseph Ketchum
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Therefore it is, that the duty and the function of Congress are alike filled in the civil government of a territory, when the Congress shall have defined a mode or an organization by which the citizens in a territory shall be able to exercise their inherent right of self-government in accordance with the principles of i^-e Constitution. A'o man pretends that Congress has any power of legislation over the internal or dome:- tic afiairsof a sovereign State. All matters of internal sovereignty are... left to the people of such State, and there is no reason to be found in the Constitution or in the nature of the case, why Congress should have any greater power over the internai 29 or domestic concerns of cidzens in a terri lory than it has over those of citizens in a State. It is not true that the territories are outside of tlie Constitution, and become en- tilled to it and its sacred bill of rights by grace of an act of Congress. That i-
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