 Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution.  Democracy and Legal Change - Página 135por Melissa Schwartzberg - 2007Vista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
 | James Madison - 1842 - 588 páginas
...insert the words, " the year eighteen hundred and eight." Mr. GORHAM seconded the motion. Mr. MADISON. Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can...slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character, than to say nothing about it in the Constitution. On the motion, which passed in... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - 1845 - 672 páginas
...insert the words " the year eighteen hundred and eight." Mr. GORHAM seconded the motion. Mr. MADISON. Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can...slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution. On the motion, which passed in... | |
 | Daniel Parker - 1848 - 174 páginas
...1808, as the year before which Congress should not prohibit the foreign slave-trade, he remarked, " Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can...slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution." And in support of the principle... | |
 | 1849 - 100 páginas
...Union."* And Mr. Madison, in opposing the continuance of the slave-trade beyond the year 1800, said, " twenty years will produce all the mischief that can...slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character, than to say nothing about it in the constitution." f We are mortified to say, that,... | |
 | Franklin Dexter, William Jay - 1851 - 64 páginas
...(Madison Papers, p. 1396.) Mr. Madison would not consent to the continuance of the traffic till 1808. " Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can...slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character, than to say nothing about it in the Constitution." (Madison Papers, p. 1427.) Mr.... | |
 | William Jay - 1853 - 684 páginas
...Madison Papers, p. 1396. Mr. Madison would not consent to the continuance of the traffic till 1808. " Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can...slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character, than to say nothing about it in the Constitution." Madison Papers, p. 1427. Mr.... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - 1856 - 220 páginas
...insert the words " the year eighteen hundred and eight." Mr. GORHAM seconded the motion. Mr. MADISON. Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can...slaves. So long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution. On the motion, which passed in... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Chew Howard - 1857 - 254 páginas
...Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, in the negative. In opposition to the motion, Mr. Madison said: "Twenty years will produce all the mischief that can...; so long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution." (Madison Papers.) The provision... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - 1857 - 672 páginas
...In opposition to the motion, Mr. Madison said: " Twenty years will produce all the mischief that con @; (; ; American character than to say nothing about it in the constitution." (Madison Papers.) The provision... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1857 - 688 páginas
...opposition to the motion, Mr. Madison said: "Twenty years will produce all the mischief that (tan. be apprehended from the liberty to import slaves ; so long a term will be more dishonorable to the American character than to say nothing about it in the Constitution." (Madison Papers.) The provision... | |
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