non-slaveholding

Updated: May 5, 2025

Here, as in the clause we have already examined, veiled beneath a form of words as deceitful as it is unmeaning in a truly democratic government, is a provision for the safety, perpetuity and augmentation of the slaveholding power a provision scarcely less atrocious than that which related to the African slave trade, and almost as afflictive in its operation a provision still in force, with no possibility of its alteration, so long as a majority of the slave States choose to maintain their slave system a provision which, at the present time, enables the South to have twenty-five additional representatives in Congress on the score of property, while the North is not allowed to have one a provision which concedes to the oppressed three-fifths of the political power which is granted to all others, and then puts this power into the hands of their oppressors, to be wielded by them for the more perfect security of their tyrannous authority, and the complete subjugation of the non-slaveholding States.

American Anti-Slavery Society - The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 3 of 4

Judge Douglas had already taken a high place among the able men of his time of national and international reputation. In September, Lincoln's character was understood and his ability was recognized in all the non-slaveholding States of the Union. His mastery over Douglas had been complete. His logic was unanswerable, his ridicule fatal; every position taken by him was defended successfully.

Shelby M. (Shelby Moore) Cullom - Fifty Years of Public Service : Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois

With the close of this war and the conclusion of peace, the non-slaveholding section took on fresh industrial life and embarked then upon that career of material exploitation and development which has placed it and the wonderful achievements of its diversified industries in the front rank of rivals in the markets of the world.

Archibald Henry Grimké - Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States: The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12

By the common law, a slave escaping into a non-slaveholding state became free. As it was presumed that other northern states would follow Massachusetts in abolishing slavery, the southern states wanted some provision to enable them to reclaim their fugitive slaves. The manner in which slaves are to be reclaimed, is prescribed by an act of congress.

Andrew W. (Andrew White) Young - The Government Class Book: Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles: of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of: Citizens.

But the people having generally acquiesced, the matter was considered settled; and when Texas, a slave-holding State, was admitted into the Union, Southern men, regarding the Missouri Act as a compact, assented to the extension of the line through the territory of Texas, with a provision that any State formed out of the territory north of 36: 30: should be non-slaveholding.

Jefferson Davis - Speeches of the Hon. Jefferson Davis, of Mississippi; delivered during the summer of 1858.

It has been truly said that "the power of slavery lies in the ignorance, the degradation, the servility of the slaves, and of the non-slaveholding whites of the South, and of the corresponding classes in the Free States.

Joshua Coffin - An Account of Some of the Principal Slave Insurrections,: and Others, Which Have Occurred, or Been Attempted, in the: United States and Elsewhere, During the Last Two Centuries.

"Which of us, I ask, is there upon this floor who has not read and re-read whatever was written within the last twenty-five or thirty years by the distinguished men of this country? But enough of that. "As I said before, there ought not have been, and there did not necessarily result from our form of Government, any irrepressible conflict between the Slaveholding and the non-Slaveholding States.

John Alexander Logan - The Great Conspiracy, Complete