So far as the uniform practice of sixty years can settle a doubtful, or confirm an admitted right, this power of legislating over the territories has been taken from the region of doubt, and established upon the basis of acknowledged authority.
Mann argues that long-standing practices have established the government's authority over territorial legislation.
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Old Virginia was the first to sow this land of ours with slavery; she is also the first to reap the full harvest of destruction.
So far as legal rights against his oppressors are concerned, the slave lives in such a world of darkness.
What rights are more sacred or more dear to us than the conjugal and the parental?
Even cold, barren New England, though more than twice as thickly peopled, grew in population at a faster rate than these old slave states.
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