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S. W. BENEDICT,

Stereotyper and Printer 16 Spruce Straet.

PREFACE.

THE public will not expect a preface to a disquisition on Constitutional Law, which can go far to encourage them, in the perusal of a legal argument; but when that public are informed that the argument was not to change the title to a farm, or test the Constitutionality of a bank charter, but that it was made for the deliverance of four thousand human beings from bondage, and to overthrow the Institution of Slavery in the State of New Jersey, further attempts at apology or to propitiate their kind perusal, would seem unnecessary.

Several distinguished gentlemen of the bar have been so kind as to wish to see this argument in a more perfect form than could be expected from the desultory notes of a reporter, which only glanced at some of the most important topics which formed the basis of discussion; to meet which desire, and contribute a single mite to the deliverance of my countrymen from Slavery, it is hoped, will insure the reading of the following pages.

New York, June, 1845.

A. S.

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