State Sovereignty and Slavery

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Excerpt from State Sovereignty and Slavery: A Reinterpretation of Proslavery Constitutional Doctrine, 1846-1860Though the dispute over fugitive slaves was in form a dispute over statutory enactments and their effective enforcement, it was in reality a dispute over the spirit in which the Constitution should be interpreted when rights of different sorts came into conflict. Partisans of slavery could find in the Constitution no provisions that applied in any way to Negroes, save the one provision uphold ing the right of a slaveholder to his slave. No other constitutional guarantees had any relevance, and to invoke them was deliberate obstructionism. Representative Eli S. Shorter of Alabama put the matter bluntly.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.