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Sir? — Have they not power to provide for the general defence and welfare? — May they not think that these call for the abolition of slavery?

Select American Speeches: Forensic and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks ... - Page 248
by Stephen Cullen Carpenter - 1815 - 488 pages
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The Powers of the Federal Government Over Slavery! by Andrew J. Wilcox.

Andrew Jackson Wilcox - Biography & Autobiography - 1862 - 24 pages

...their minds they will search that paper and see if they havepoiver of manumission. And have they not Sir? have they not power to provide for the general...will they not be warranted by that power? There is no ambigous implication or logical deduction. The paper speaks to the point. They have the power in clear...

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