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Excerpt from Veto Messages of Hon. Samuel W. Black, Governor of Nebraska, on the Bills to Prohibit Slavery: Passed at the Sessions of 1860 and 1861
If the owner of a slave carries his pr'operty to the border of a sovereign state, wherein slavery ls forbidden, his right of property remains, but if he crosses the line, he becomes subject, in person and property, to whatever con stitutional law the State has seen fit to establish. If he loses his property, it is because the local law takes it away. Slavery existed in Missouri durizg the entire period of her territorial existence, and there never was a statute law, either to establish or protect it. The citizens o settled there with slaves, and without slaves, as they saw fit, and athelr rights of property were never called in question. Have they who met in Convention at Chicago spoken the trutli when they declare that the nor the territories is that of freedom, and we deny the authority. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
