...assent to the anti-slavery principles of the platform. The convention declared that Congress " had no more power to make a slave than to make a king," and that it was the duty of the national government to relieve itself of " all responsibility for the...

...liberty, or property, without due legal process. Resolved, That in the judgment of this Convention, Congress has no more power to make a slave than to...institute or establish slavery than to institute or establish a monarchy : no such power can be found among those specifically conferred by the constitution...

...power to deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due legal process, and therefore has no more power to make a slave than to make a king;...institute or establish slavery, than to institute and establish a monarchy, as no such power is to be found among those specifically conferred by the...

...liberty, or property, without due legal process. " Resoli-ciJ, That, in the judgment of this Convention, Congress has no more power to make a slave than to...institute or establish slavery, than to institute or establish a monarchy — no such power can be found among those specifically conferred by the Constitution,...

...creation all power to establish or continue slavery. Congress has no more power under the Constitution to make a slave than to make a king ; no more power to establish slavery than to establish the Inquisition. At the same time the Constitution confers no power...

...liberty, or property, without due legal process. Retained, That in the judgment of this Convention, Congress has no more power to make a slave, than to...institute or establish slavery, than to institute or establish "a monarchy, — no such power can be found among those specially conferred by the Constitution,...

...liberty, or property, without due legal process. " Resolved, That, in the judgment of this convention, luskey establish a monarchy ; no such power can be found among those specifically conferred by the Constitution,...

...or property, without due legal process. Resolved, That in the judgment of this Convention, Congiess has no more power to make a Slave than to make a King;...institute or establish Slavery than to institute or establish a Monarchy : no such power can be found among tliosu specifically conferred by the Constitution,...

...property, without due legal process. Eeevfoed, That in the judgment of this Convention, Coiigie-ч n.-.- no more power to make a Slave than to make a King;...institute or establish Slavery than to institute or establish a Monarchy : no such power cau be found among those specifically conferred by the Constitution,...

...or property, without due legal process. Resolved, That in the judgment of this Convention, Congiess has no more power to make a Slave than to make a King;...more power to institute or establish Slavery than 1o institute or establish a Monarcby : no such power can he found among those specifically conferred...