 | William Wallace Bates - 1902 - 506 páginas
...slaves into North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia shall not be prohibited," etc. Mr. Madison thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. When the Report was again taken up, Mr. Pinckney moved to postpone it in favor of the following... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1903 - 490 páginas
...Constitution which conferred power on Congress to abolish the importation of slaves in 1808, " Mr. Madison thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men."f Most memorable testimony to the truth from this greatest constitutional authority ! With the... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1908 - 976 páginas
...and Georgia on those terms, than to exclude them Iron the Union. »»•»»•••• MR. MADISON thought it wrong to admit In the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. The reason of duties did not hold, as slaves are not, like merchandise, consumed, etc. (August,... | |
 | George Haven Putnam - 1909 - 330 páginas
...acknowledging men to be property by taxing them as such under the character of slaves. Mr. Madison thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. The reason of duties did not hold, as slaves are not, like merchandise, consumed. ****** It was... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - 1911 - 680 páginas
...of the duty shewed revenue to be the object, not the discouragement of the importation. Mr. Madison thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. The reason of duties did not hold, as slaves are not like merchandise, consumed. &c Col. Mason... | |
 | Wisconsin. History Commission - 1912 - 358 páginas
...living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it." Madison thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution, the idea that there could be property in man. Said John Adams: "Slavery is a crime much blacker than any African's face." Jefferson and Franklin... | |
 | Wisconsin. Governor - 1912 - 360 páginas
...living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it." Madison thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution, the idea that there could be property in man. Said John Adams: "Slavery is a crime much blacker than any African's face." Jefferson and Franklin... | |
 | James Augustin Brown Scherer - 1916 - 474 páginas
...may be abolished by law."6 Madison, as he himself writes in his Journal of the Federal Convention, "thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men."7 Monroe, in the Virginia Convention, said: "We have found that this evil has «WEH Lecky, History... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - 1917 - 504 páginas
...of the duty shewed revenue to be the object, not the discouragement of the importation. Mr. Madison thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. The reason of duties did not hold, as slaves are not like merchandise, consumed &c. Col. Mason... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 1920 - 638 páginas
...States pursue their interests with less scruple than individuals. The power of regulating commerce was a wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men." Documentary History, Vol. iii, p. 618. llbid., p. 591. Session of August 22d. 2 Ibid., p. 450.... | |
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Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men. 
