 | Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1838 - 66 pages
...borders." In the Virginia convention of '87, Mr. Mason, author of the Virginia constitution, said, " The augmentation of slaves weakens the States, and...disgraceful to mankind. As much as I value a union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states, (ie. South Carolina and Georgia,) into the union,... | |
 | William Dexter Wilson - Slavery - 1839 - 64 pages
...convention of 1787, Mr. Mason, author of the Virginia constitution, said, " The augmentation of the slaves weakens the states, and such a trade is diabolical in itself and disgraceful to mankind. As mush as I value a union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states" (S. Carolina and... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...BRITAIN. Its exclusion has been a principal object of this State, and most of the States of the Union. The augmentation of slaves weakens the States ; and...diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. Yet, by this Constitution, it is continued for twenty years. As much as I value the union of all the... | |
 | Thomas C. Thornton - Slavery - 1841 - 358 pages
...year 1808, was under consideration, Mr. George Mason said — 'As much as I value an union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states* into the union, unless they * By "southern states" were meant South Carolina and Georgia. agreed to the discontinuance of this... | |
 | 1841 - 432 pages
...union." • In the Virginia convention of 1787, Mr. Mason, author of the Virginia constitution, said: "The augmentation of slaves weakens the states; and...itself, and disgraceful to mankind. * * * As much as I ralue the union of all the states, I would not admit the southern states (South Carolina and Georgia)... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Constitutional law - 1856 - 220 pages
...Britain. Its exclusion has been a principal object of this State, and most of the States in the Union. The augmentation of slaves weakens the States ; and...diabolical in itself, and disgraceful to mankind. Yet, by this Constitution, it is continued for twenty years. As much as I value a union of all the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1857 - 490 pages
...INCREASE OT SLAVERY."— MadilOn Papers, vol. 3, p. KI91. " The augmentation of slaves iceakensthe States, and such a trade is diabolical in itself and...disgraceful to mankind. As much as I value a union of these .-'tales, ItcouU not admit the southern States into the Union, unless they asrea to a discontinuance... | |
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As much as I value a union of all the States, I would not admit the Southern States into the Union unless they agree to the discontinuance of this disgraceful trade, because it would bring weakness and not strength to the Union. 
