 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 702 strani
...degrees complete it. He urged on the Convention the necessity of despatching its business. Col. MASON. This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of...not the importing States alone, but the whole Union. The evil of having slaves was experienced during the late war. Had slaves been treated as they might... | |
 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 710 strani
...degrees complete it. He urged on the Convention the necessity of despatching its business. Col. MASON. This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of...GOvernment constantly checked the attempts of Virginia ta put a stop to it. The present question concerns not the importing States alone, but the whole Union.... | |
 | Thomas C. Thornton - 1841 - 358 strani
...government should have power to prevent the increase of slavery. 'This infernal traffic.' said he, 'originated in the avarice of British merchants. The...checked the attempts of Virginia to put a stop to it? Other remarks were made by him, in which he deprecated the idea that South Carolina and Georgia should... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1841 - 366 strani
...legislation and English counteracting authority, unbiased by hostility to England, bore true testimony that "the British government constantly checked the attempts of Virginia to put a stop to this infernal traffic." On whatever ground Virginia opposed the trade, the censure was just. The white... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1843 - 524 strani
...legislation and English counteracting authority, unbiased by hostility to England, bore true testimony that "the British government constantly checked the attempts of Virginia to put a stop M«HM>C to this infernal traffic." On whatever ground Virginia IILIMO. opposed the trade, the censure... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1844 - 524 strani
...legislation and English counteracting authority, unbiased by hostility to England, bore true testimony that " the British government constantly checked the attempts of Virginia to put a stop Madi*>t to this infernal traffic." On whatever ground Virginia m. iwd. opposed the trade, the censure... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot, United States. Constitutional Convention - 1845 - 672 strani
...VOL. v. 58 39 it. He urged on the Convention the necessity of despatching its business. Col. MASON. This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of...not the importing states alone, but the whole Union. The evil of having slaves was experienced during the late war. Had slaves bee.n treated as they might... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 strani
...legislation and English counteracting authority, unbiased by hostility to England, bore true testimony that "the British government constantly checked the attempts of Virginia to put a stop to this infernal traffic." On whatever ground Virginia m.im opposed the trade, the censure was just. The... | |
 | REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS. M.D. - 1847 - 530 strani
...on slaves imported into the colony, thus virtually prohibiting them ; and Madison truly said, that " the British government constantly checked the attempts of Virginia to put a stop to this infernal traffic."3 South Carolina soon passed a law prohibiting their further importation. It... | |
 | R. Thomas (A.M.) - 1847 - 1076 strani
...legislation and English counteracting authority, unbiased by hostility to England, bore true testimony that " the British government constantly checked the attempts of Virginia to put a stop to this infernal traffic." On whatever ground Virginia opposed the trade, the censure was iust. Yet there... | |
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This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of British merchants. The British GOvernment constantly checked the attempts of Virginia to put a stop to it. The present question concerns not the importing States alone, but the whole Union. 
