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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... Federal Consti- tution , - 185 CHAPTER X. Extracts from the Proceedings in the Convention of North Carolina , CHAPTER XI . Extracts from the Observations made in the Convention of Pennsylvania , - 262 294 CHAPTER XII . Extracts from Mr ...
... Federal Consti- tution , - 185 CHAPTER X. Extracts from the Proceedings in the Convention of North Carolina , CHAPTER XI . Extracts from the Observations made in the Convention of Pennsylvania , - 262 294 CHAPTER XII . Extracts from Mr ...
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... federal government . " It will be seen in the sequel that some of these amendments , written probably to do away , in part , the known opposition of Samuel Adams and Mr. Hancock , had , in fact , special reference to the slaves in the ...
... federal government . " It will be seen in the sequel that some of these amendments , written probably to do away , in part , the known opposition of Samuel Adams and Mr. Hancock , had , in fact , special reference to the slaves in the ...
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... federal government , " they were op- posed to consolidation , and they wished " the world at large " should " judge " who " best un- derstood the rights of freemen and free States . " They did not mean to give up the independency of the ...
... federal government , " they were op- posed to consolidation , and they wished " the world at large " should " judge " who " best un- derstood the rights of freemen and free States . " They did not mean to give up the independency of the ...
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... federal government : in this draft there is no distinction made ; the word " free " is not used before persons . In Mr. Patter- son's ( N. J. ) resolutions it was ; in Mr. Hamilton's ( N. Y. ) it was not . Mr. C. Pinckney is reported to ...
... federal government : in this draft there is no distinction made ; the word " free " is not used before persons . In Mr. Patter- son's ( N. J. ) resolutions it was ; in Mr. Hamilton's ( N. Y. ) it was not . Mr. C. Pinckney is reported to ...
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... federal govern ment , and may be totally abolished by a concurrence of the few States which continue the unnatural traffic , in the prohibitory example which has been given by so great a majority of the Union . Happy would it be for the ...
... federal govern ment , and may be totally abolished by a concurrence of the few States which continue the unnatural traffic , in the prohibitory example which has been given by so great a majority of the Union . Happy would it be for the ...
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