 Mr. SHERMAN was for leaving the clause as it stands. He disapproved of the slave trade ; yet as the States were now possessed of the right to import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, and as it was expedient to have as...  History of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue - Strana 671859 - 280 str.Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | George Bancroft - 1882 - 532 str.
...slave-trade; yet, as the states are now possessed of the right to import slaves, and as it is expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of government, I think it best to leave the matter as we find it." * Mason, compressing the observation of a long... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 610 str.
...slave-trade; yet, as the states are now possessed of the right to import slaves, and as it is expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of government, I think it best to leave the matter as we find it." Mason, compressing the observation of a long life... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1885 - 616 str.
...slave-trade ; yet, as the states are now possessed of the right to import slaves, and as it is expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of government, I think it best to leave the matter as we find it." Mason, compressing the observation of a long life... | |
 | 1900 - 536 str.
...Constitution the idea of property in men."* Roger Sherman expressed, no doubt, a general hope when he stated that "the abolition of slavery seemed to be going...several States would probably by degrees complete it." It seems clear, moreover, that in this early period the prevailing sentiment of the people — the... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1894 - 626 str.
...import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, and as it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed...complete it. He urged on the convention the necessity of dispatching its business. One of the most surprising things in these debates is the hostility shown... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - 1892 - 828 str.
...possessed of the right to import slaves and the public good did not require it to be taken from them, etc., he thought it best to leave the matter as we find it." Mr. Oliver Ellsworth, from Connecticut, said : " He was in favor of allowing every State to do as it... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention - 1893 - 432 str.
...import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, and as it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed...Convention the necessity of despatching its business. Col. MASON. This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of British merchants. The British Government... | |
 | Erastus Howard Scott - 1893
...import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, and as it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed...Convention the necessity of despatching its business. CoL MASON. This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of British merchants. The British Government... | |
 | 1893 - 608 str.
...'Madison Papers, V., 391 (Elliot). i Wilson, " Rise and Fall," p. 51. from them, and as it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of government, it would be best to leave the matter as we find it.'" He said, when Baldwin of Georgia, a man of Connecticut... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894 - 530 str.
...beyond dispute it is that Roger Sherman expressed the universal sentiment of our fathers when he said, " The abolition of slavery seemed to be going on in the United States, and the good sense of the several States would probably by degrees complete it." In that spirit the compromises... | |
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