An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Embracing an Abstract of the Proceedings of the National and State Conventions on this Subject |
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... slaveholder.1 " Had the circumstances of the country remained as they then were , slave labor , always and every where the most expensive , would have disappeared before the com- petition of free labor . They had seen , too , the princi ...
... slaveholder.1 " Had the circumstances of the country remained as they then were , slave labor , always and every where the most expensive , would have disappeared before the com- petition of free labor . They had seen , too , the princi ...
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... was a person in the land from whom they were taking away the right of being fully heard before those who were exercising the right of taxing him . Here , however , the influ- ence of the slaveholder was felt , and here it 70 THE ARGUMENT .
... was a person in the land from whom they were taking away the right of being fully heard before those who were exercising the right of taxing him . Here , however , the influ- ence of the slaveholder was felt , and here it 70 THE ARGUMENT .
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... slaveholder was felt , and here it came up in opposition to the free spirit of the land , and endeavored to bend it to its own purposes , and , after long , labored , and vexatious discussion , and an express determination to trig the ...
... slaveholder was felt , and here it came up in opposition to the free spirit of the land , and endeavored to bend it to its own purposes , and , after long , labored , and vexatious discussion , and an express determination to trig the ...
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... slaveholder more secure , and that their striking out the words " justly claiming " renders it more certain . But , when we consider the words " to . whom such service or labor may be due " were added , they place the subject on its ...
... slaveholder more secure , and that their striking out the words " justly claiming " renders it more certain . But , when we consider the words " to . whom such service or labor may be due " were added , they place the subject on its ...
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... slaveholder , as we should have to do did we render it to comply with his wishes . Let us not be misunderstood . We do not advance the idea , that this clause of the Con- stitution was brought forward for the purpose of • securing the ...
... slaveholder , as we should have to do did we render it to comply with his wishes . Let us not be misunderstood . We do not advance the idea , that this clause of the Con- stitution was brought forward for the purpose of • securing the ...
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