 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 710 pages
...Mr. ELLSWORTH, as he had never owned a slave, could not judge of the effects of slavery on character. He said, however, that if it was to be considered...cheaper to raise than import them, whilst in the sickly rice swamps foreign supplies are necessary, if we go no further than is urged, we shall be unjust towards... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - History - 1849 - 616 pages
...effects of slavery on character ; but if slavery is to be considered in a moral light, the Convention ought to go further, and free those already in the country. As slaves multiply so fast in Virginia and Maryland, it is cheaper to raise them there than to import them, while... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Constitutional law - 1856 - 220 pages
...Mr. ELLSWORTH, as he had never owned a slave, could not judge of the effects of slavery on character. He said, however, that if it was to be considered...cheaper to raise than import them, whilst in the sickly rice swamps foreign supplies are necessary, if we go no further than is urged, we shall be unjust towards'... | |
 | Alfred Osborn Pope Nicholson - Slavery - 1860 - 32 pages
...ELLSWOBTH. As he had never owned a slave, he could not judge of the effects of slavery on character. He said, however, that, if it was to be considered...go further, and free those already in the country." oaa "Let us not intermeddle. "Mr. PIXCKSET. If slavery be wrong, it is justified by the example of... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 526 pages
...Mr. Ellsworth, as he had never owned a slave, could not judge of the effects of slavery on character. He said, however, that if it was to be considered in a moral light, we onght to go further, and free those already in the country. As slaves also multiply so fast in Virginia... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...Mr. ELLSWORTH, as he had never owned a slave, could not judge of the effects of slavery on character. He said, however, that if it was to be considered...cheaper to raise than import them, whilst in the sickly rice swamps foreign supplies are necessary, if we go no further than is urged, we shall be unjust towards... | |
 | James Williams (American diplomat.) - Presidents - 1863 - 448 pages
...Connecticut, had never owned a slave, and could not judge of the effects of slavery upon character. If it was to be considered in a moral light, we ought to go farther, and free those already in the country. As slaves also multiply so fast in Virginia and Maryland... | |
 | 1864 - 746 pages
...Ellsworth; (of Conn.) as he had never owned a slave, could not judge of tie effects of slavery on character. He said, however, that if it was to be considered in a moral light, wo ought to go further, and free those already in the country. A? slaves also multiply so fast in Virginia... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 678 pages
...Mr. ELLSWORTH, as he had never owned a slave, could not judge of the effects of slavery on character. He said, however, that if it was to be considered in a moral light, we ought to go further, and free tliose already in the country. As slaves also multiply so fast in Virginia and Maryland, that it is... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1877 - 608 pages
...effects of slavery on character ; but if slavery is to be considered in a moral light, the Convention ought to go further, and free those already in the country. As slaves multiply so fast in Virginia and Maryland, it is cheaper to raise them there than to import them, while... | |
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He said, however, that if it was to be considered in a moral light, we ought to go further, and free those already in the country. As slaves also multiply so fast in Virginia and Maryland, that it is cheaper to raise than import them, whilst in the sickly... 
