...that it was mainly based upon a mistaken statement of fact — the statement in the opinion that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." An inspection of the Constitution will show that the right of property in a slave is not " distinctly...

...Court and the advocates of that decision may search in vain for the place in the Constitution where the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed. I say, therefore, that I think one of the premises is not true in fact. But it is true with Judge Douglas....

...Court and the advocates of that decision may search in vain for the place in the Constitution where the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed. I say, therefore, that I think one of the premises is not true in fact. But it is true with Judge Douglas....

...Court and the advocates of that decision may search in vain for the place in the Constitution where the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed. I say, therefore, that I think one of the premises is not true in fact. But it is true with Judge Douglas....

...notwithstanding." The essence of the Dred Scott case is compressed into the sentence which I will now read : " Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of...distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution." I repeat it, "The right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution...

...which would enable it to assume the position to which it was destined among the States of the Union Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of...point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly expressed and affirmed in the Constitution. The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of...

...which would enable it to assume the position to which it was destined among the States of the Union Now, as we have already said in an earlier part of...point, the right of property in a slave is distinctly expressed and affirmed in the Constitution. The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of...

...spirit of the age. True, it might be urged, as Taney had maintained in the Dred Scott decision, that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution,"4 and that the Crittenden amendment asserted no more ; but to Republicans who venerated...

...spirit of the age. True, it might be urged, as Taney had maintained in the Dred Scott decision, that " the right of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Constitution,"4 and that the Crittenden amendment asserted no more ; but to Republicans who venerated...

...there was no difference " between property in a slave and any other property." He said: "The riglit of property in a slave is distinctly and expressly affirmed in the Consi itution. [Not so.] The right to traffic in it, like an ordinary article of merchandise and property,...