An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Embracing an Abstract of the Proceedings of the National and State Conventions on this SubjectSaxton & Peirce, 1841 - 440 páginas |
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... thought lay at the foundation of this most in- teresting question ; we have therefore considered it in a somewhat different aspect . While he sup- posed , because the States had not by their laws established slavery , therefore it did ...
... thought lay at the foundation of this most in- teresting question ; we have therefore considered it in a somewhat different aspect . While he sup- posed , because the States had not by their laws established slavery , therefore it did ...
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... thought in their power to put an end to the sys- tem , and leave it not only in the power of the government to destroy it , but absolutely , and in fact , by the system they adopted , they did not place it in the power of every ...
... thought in their power to put an end to the sys- tem , and leave it not only in the power of the government to destroy it , but absolutely , and in fact , by the system they adopted , they did not place it in the power of every ...
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... thought of , saving , perhaps , in the minds of some , the young giant was discovered while it was but a suckling . But it is asked how it is , then , that that which was considered so great an evil , at the time of which we are ...
... thought of , saving , perhaps , in the minds of some , the young giant was discovered while it was but a suckling . But it is asked how it is , then , that that which was considered so great an evil , at the time of which we are ...
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... thought slavery was already a waning institution , destined soon to pass away . In their ✓ time , ( 1787 , ) slaves were comparatively of little value , there being then no great slave staple ( as cotton is now ) . to make them ...
... thought slavery was already a waning institution , destined soon to pass away . In their ✓ time , ( 1787 , ) slaves were comparatively of little value , there being then no great slave staple ( as cotton is now ) . to make them ...
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... thought , for the most part , the slave- holders were acting in good faith . It is not intended by this expression that the South had all along pressed the admission of new States simply with the view to increase its own relative power ...
... thought , for the most part , the slave- holders were acting in good faith . It is not intended by this expression that the South had all along pressed the admission of new States simply with the view to increase its own relative power ...
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