An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery, Embracing an Abstract of the Proceedings of the National and State Conventions on this SubjectAMS Press, 1973 - 440 páginas |
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... continued . Mr. Edmund Randolph , in a letter addressed to the house of delegates of Virginia , upon the subject of adopting the Constitution , says , in speaking of the equality of suffrage , & c.— " I hope Virginia will be seconded by ...
... continued . Mr. Edmund Randolph , in a letter addressed to the house of delegates of Virginia , upon the subject of adopting the Constitution , says , in speaking of the equality of suffrage , & c.— " I hope Virginia will be seconded by ...
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... continued , and the word ' free ' before the word ' citizen ' was stricken out ; " - another evidence that slavery , so far from its being guaranteed , was meant to be destroyed . The same subject of the powers of congress being continued ...
... continued , and the word ' free ' before the word ' citizen ' was stricken out ; " - another evidence that slavery , so far from its being guaranteed , was meant to be destroyed . The same subject of the powers of congress being continued ...
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... continued Mr. W. " have this power of taxing directly , it will be in their power to Can gentlemen tell why they will not oppose it , and by this means make the poor pay as much as the rich ? " 1 enact a poll tax . " Mr. Fuller was at a ...
... continued Mr. W. " have this power of taxing directly , it will be in their power to Can gentlemen tell why they will not oppose it , and by this means make the poor pay as much as the rich ? " 1 enact a poll tax . " Mr. Fuller was at a ...
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CHAPTER I | 13 |
CHAPTER II | 36 |
Quotations showing the Character of the People who came | 90 |
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