The Origin of the Late War: Traced from the Beginning of the Constitution to the Revolt of the Southern States |
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... finally withdrew this clause from the doc- ument , and his reason , recorded by himself , appears in ex- planation of his conduct . After alluding to the disposition of some of the Southern States to keep up the slave trade , he ...
... finally withdrew this clause from the doc- ument , and his reason , recorded by himself , appears in ex- planation of his conduct . After alluding to the disposition of some of the Southern States to keep up the slave trade , he ...
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... finally inserted in the Constitu- tion , is as follows : " The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit , shall not be prohibited by the Congress , prior to the year one ...
... finally inserted in the Constitu- tion , is as follows : " The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit , shall not be prohibited by the Congress , prior to the year one ...
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... finally adjusted by agreeing to the circumlocutory language retained in the standing clause of the Constitution , in lieu of using the word " slaves ; " and the measure passed in the affirmative by the votes given be- low , the New ...
... finally adjusted by agreeing to the circumlocutory language retained in the standing clause of the Constitution , in lieu of using the word " slaves ; " and the measure passed in the affirmative by the votes given be- low , the New ...
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... finally in a harvest - field of fu- ture contention . And as it would have been in conformity with the well - understood , indeed , the manifest relations of the General Government to slavery , as a merely local institu- tion , so it ...
... finally in a harvest - field of fu- ture contention . And as it would have been in conformity with the well - understood , indeed , the manifest relations of the General Government to slavery , as a merely local institu- tion , so it ...
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... finally operating with full effect , however , until more than fifty years afterwards . The Anti - Slavery Society , of which Dr. Franklin was President , appears to have been formed at about the close of the Revolutionary War . All ...
... finally operating with full effect , however , until more than fifty years afterwards . The Anti - Slavery Society , of which Dr. Franklin was President , appears to have been formed at about the close of the Revolutionary War . All ...
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