Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Letter to the Secretary of the Interior on the Affairs of Utah, Polygamy, Cohabitation
But now let it be supposed that, in addition to prohibiting the introduction of slave property into a Territory, Congress had gone a step further and had made it a penal offence, punishable by fine and imprisonment, for any inhabitant of a Territory to be interested in slave property in any State of the Union. It is at once obvious that such a law would have transcended the legislative power of Congress, because it would have encountered a personal right to hold in a slave holding State a species of property then perfectly lawful in the limits of that State, and because the Constitution of the United States gives to Congress no legislative authority over the property of inhabitants of a Territory unless that pr0p erty is itself within the Territory.
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