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" I would therefore call the special attention of Congress to the subject, and respectfully suggest the propriety of passing such a law as will prohibit, under severe penalties, the circulation in the Southern States, through the mail, of incendiary publications... "
Slavery and Anti-slavery: A History of the Great Struggle in Both ... - Page 415
by William Goodell - 1853 - 606 pages
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and ...

United States - 1886 - 684 pages
...Congress has authority to regulate what shall be distributed through the post offices, and does he not "suggest the propriety of passing such a law as will...circulation in the southern States, through* the mail, of inceridiary publications, intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection?" Except that this bill...
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1835 - 1436 pages
...the constitution, is especially bound to avoid in its own action, any thing that may disturb them. I would, therefore, call the special attention of...circulation in the Southern States, through the mail, oí incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection. Ifelt ittobemydutyin...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and ...

United States. Congress - United States - 1836 - 680 pages
...as the President recommended. One part of the message he would refer to, which»was in these words: "I would, therefore, call the special attention of...through the mail, of incendiary publications, intended tu instigate the slaves to insurrection." This was clearly unconstitutional; for it not only recommended...
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A Collection of Valuable Documents: Being Birney's Vindication of ...

Abolitionists - 1836 - 96 pages
...have engaged in these unconstitutional and wicked attempts.' And you proceed to suggest to Congress, ' the propriety of passing such a law as will prohibit,...the circulation in the Southern states, through the mails, of incendiary publications, intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection.' A servile insurrection,...
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The National Calendar: And Annals of the United States, Volume 14

Peter Force - United States - 1836 - 452 pages
...the constitution, is especially bonnrf to avoid in its own action, any thing that may disturb them. I would, therefore, call the special attention of...the subject, and respectfully suggest the propriety (if passing such a law as will prohibit, under severe penalties, the circulation in the Southern Slates,...
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The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of ..., Volume 4

Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1836 - 680 pages
...February 4, 1836. The message recommends that Congress should pass a law to punish the transmission, through the mail, of incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection. It of course assumes for Congress a right to determine what papers are incendiary and intended to excite...
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Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson: With a Short Sketch of His Life

Andrew Jackson - 1837 - 448 pages
...the Constitution, is especially bound to avoid in its own action, any thing that may disturb them. I would therefore, call the special attention of Congress...intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection. I felt it to be my duty, in the first message which I communicated to Congress, to urge upon its attention...
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Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson: With a Short Sketch of His Life

United States. President (1829-1837 : Jackson) - Presidents - 1837 - 460 pages
...the Constitution, is especially bound to avoid in its own action, any thing that may disturb them. I would therefore, call the special attention of Congress...passing such a law as will prohibit, under severe penal- • ties, the circulation in the Southern States, through the mail, of incendiary publications...
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A View of the Action of the Federal Government, in Behalf of Slavery

William Jay - Blacks - 1839 - 232 pages
...have engaged in these unconstitutional and wicked attempts.' And you proceed to suggest to Congress, ' the propriety of passing such a law as will prohibit,...the circulation in the southern States, through the mails, of incendiary publications, intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection.' "A servile insurrection,...
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A View of the Action of the Federal Government, in Behalf of Slavery

William Jay - Slavery - 1839 - 236 pages
...President. On the opening of Congress, President Jackson in his message, recommended the " passing of such a law as will prohibit under severe penalties, the circulation in the southern Slates through the mails, of incendiary publications intended to instigate the slaves to insurrection."...
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