...and that which bears on the present question, was expressed in the following terms : — "Resolved, That Congress have no authority to interfere in the...emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations...

...only by vote of 29 to 25, f that Congress adopted a resolution on March 23, 1790, disclaiming a power "to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the states;" and after a heated argument in which it was finally urged that "the peace and tranquility of the United...

...a heated discussion, the following resolution, which quieted the question for a time, was adopted : "That Congress have no authority to interfere in the...therein, which humanity and true policy may require." At this time it was not considered a sectional question, nor a conflict between the slave and anti-slave...

...body " resolved that Congress had no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or even the treatment of them within any of the States, it...to provide any regulations therein which humanity or true policy may require." Congress thus clearly declared its view of its power over the subject....

...that body "resolved that Congress had no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or even the treatment of them within any of the States, it...to provide any regulations therein which humanity or true policy may require." Congress thus clearly declared its view of its power over the subject....

...section that some thought implied congressional power of emancipation after 1808 by rewording it to say "that Congress have no authority to interfere in the...emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them." Just as at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, where the desire of northern delegates for investing...

...Sections Two and Three, which listed the things Congress could not do, be replaced with the statement "That Congress have no authority to interfere in the...therein, which humanity and true policy may require." Madison's amendment would make impossible a construction that after 1 808 congressional power could...

...to admit, cannot be prohibited by Congress, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight. That Congress have no authority to interfere in the...therein, which humanity and true policy may require. That Congress have authority to restrain the citizens of the United States from carrying on the African...

...gnashing of teeth in Congress that March of l790. the body acting as a Committee of the Whole concluded "That Congress have no authority to interfere in the...therein. which humanity and true policy may require." In other words. the national deliberative body in the United States. the Congress. did not have the...

...ban on congressional prohibition of the slave trade before 18o8, and it declared that Congress had no authority "to interfere in the emancipation of...in the treatment of them within any of the States." Those two disclaimers were accompanied, however, by three assertions of federal power, namely, the...