# Slavery: letters and speeches

Author: Mann, Horace, 1796-1859

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70681

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## Summary

Yet, sir, notwithstanding all this legislation of Congress for the territories, on the subject of slavery itself; notwithstanding its legislation on a great class of subjects of which slavery is acknowledged to be one; notwithstanding its appointment, in some cases, of the legislative power of the territory,--making its own agent, the governor, removable at pleasure,--giving him a veto, in the first place, and reserving to itself a veto when he has approved; notwithstanding the exercise, in other cases, of full, absolute sovereignty over the inhabitants of the territories, and all their interests; and, notwithstanding such has been the practice of the government for sixty years, under Jef...

## Chapters

- [LETTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slavery-letters-and-speeches-70681/chapters/3/index.md)
- [chapter 29.--Statute 1822, chapter 13._ From March 3, 1819, to March](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slavery-letters-and-speeches-70681/chapters/1/index.md)
- [LETTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/slavery-letters-and-speeches-70681/chapters/2/index.md)