| Charles Sumner - 1871 - 564 páginas
...as it may be preserved by the uncertain clause for the rendition of fugitives from service. Madison thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there can be property in men ; and I rejoice to believe that no such idea can be found there. The Constitution... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1871 - 564 páginas
...form, " as acknowledging men to be property," — that Mr. Madison was also opposed to it, because he " thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men," — and that, after these objections, the clause was so amended as to exclude the idea. But Slavery... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1872 - 512 páginas
...; 4 and especially of Mr. Madison, of Virginia, who, in a phrase which cannot be quoted too often, "THOUGHT IT WRONG TO ADMIT IN THE CONSTITUTION THE IDEA THAT THERE COULD BE PROP1 Address to the States, April 26, 1783: Journal of Congress, Vol. VIII. p. 201. 2 Madison's Debates... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 648 páginas
...original form, "as acknowledging men to be property ;" that Mr. Madison was also opposed to it, because he " thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in man ; " and that, after these objections, the clause was so amended as to exclude the idea. But Slavery... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 566 páginas
...the duty showed 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, iitc. "COLONEL MASON,... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 580 páginas
...text the kindred idea of property in man. The saying of Mr. Madison cannot be too often repeated : — "He thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men."1 But is it less wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea of Inequality of Rights founded on... | |
| Jacob William Schuckers - 1874 - 736 páginas
...of slavery in the frame of the national Government. In the emphatic language of Mr. Madison, ' they thought it WRONG to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in man! Yet, as they had no power to change the personal relations of the inhabitants of any State to... | |
| Charles Edwards Lester - 1874 - 656 páginas
...Roger Sherman, who was OPPOSED to any clause "acknowledging men to be property ; " James Madison, who " thought it WRONG to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in man ; " and Benjamin Franklin, who likened American slaveholders to Algerine corsairs. In the face... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1874 - 528 páginas
...especially of Mr. Madison, of Virginia, who, in a phrase which cannot be quoted too often, " THOUGHT TT WRONG TO ADMIT IN THE CONSTITUTION THE IDEA THAT THERE COULD BE PROPl Address to the States, April 26, 1783: Journal of Congress, Vol. VIII. p. 201. ERTY IN MEN."... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1875 - 464 páginas
...slavery: it was a nefarious institution." l In another mood, and with mild juridical phrase, Mr. Madison " thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men." 2 And Washington, in a letter written near this period, says, with a frankness worthy of imitation,"... | |
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