3: OF PATRIOTS AND STATESMEN; OR, THE "FOUNDERS OF THE REPUBLIC" ON SLAVERY. BY EZRA B. CHASE, ESQ. “FIAT JUSTITIA, PHILADELPHIA:. J. W BRADLEY, 48 N. FOURTH STREET. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860, by EZRA B. CHASE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA: STEREOTYPED BY 8. A. GEORGE, PRINTED BY KING & BAIRD. INTRODUCTORY. IN compiling the following pages, I have not been influenced by partisan purposes; neither have I compiled them for the notoriety of having my name appended to a book. The country is sufficiently flooded already with partisan literature-books written for political advantage, or pecuniary gain, or both. To such authorship I do not aspire. If I have cherished an ambition in reference to this work, it has been an ambition to place before the people information upon the subject that is now agitating the country, upon which they can rely,—the views and opinions of those distinguished patriots and statesmen who formed the government, and whose intentions and principles should be heeded and carried out, if we would preserve it from disruption and decay. This information, or most of it, has hitherto beer |