...a• it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory, the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists...recognized and protected by Congress and by the territorial government ; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right...

...it may by late provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all tuch territory, the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists...recognized and protected by Congress and by the territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right...

...provide, to form states to be admitted into the confederacy. In all such territory the institution or negro slavery, as it now exists in the confederate...shall be recognized and protected by congress and the territorial governments, and the inhabitants of the several confederate states and territories...

...admitted into the Confederacy. In all st,vh territory, the institution of negro slavery, as it note exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right...

...as it may by law provide, to form states to be admitted into the confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the confederate states, shall be recognized aud protected by congress and the territorial governments, and the inhabitants of the several confederate...

...reasons to be reported to the Senate ; and directed Congress to recognize and protect in the Territories "the institution of negro slavery as it now exists in the Confederate States." The first Presidential and Congressional election under this Constitution took place Nov. tí, 1801....

...Confederate Congress adopted a constitution containing a clause saying, "The institution of Negro slaverv as it now exists in the Confederate States shall «/ be recognized and protected." In his Inaugural Address, February 18, Jefferson Davis expressed it as the judgment and will of the...

...tariff or the maintenance of internal improvements at general expense, and to "recognize and protect" " the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States." 256. Under what claim of constitutional right all this was done passes comprehension. That a State...

...should exist. They provided, to use the words of their Constitution, that " in all such territories, the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists...recognized and protected by Congress and by the territorial government ; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right...

...independent character,' instead of simply by 'we the people.' It provided that in newly acquired territory 'the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists...recognized and protected by Congress and by the Territorial Government'; also for the right of transit and sojourn for 'slaves and other property,' and the right...