...rendered a few years before was openly assailed, and such declarations as the following were common: "There is a higher law than the Constitution which regulates our authority over the domain. Slavery must be abolished and we must do it." — WH Seward. "The Union is a lie. The American Union...

...United States to exclude slavery from the soil of California, he proceeds to inform us that, " There ia a. higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain and devotee it to the same noble purposes."* " We deem the principle of the law for the recapture of fugitives,...

...defense, to welfare, and to liberty. But there is a Idyker law than the Constitution, which regnlates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes. The territory is a part—no inconsiderable part—of the common heritage of mankind, bestowed upon them by the Creator...

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