 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 - Page 651859 - 280 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1871 - 608 pages
...possessed the right, and the public good did not require it to be taken away, and as it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of government, ho would leave the matter as he found it. The abolition of slavery seemed to be going on in the United... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1877 - 608 pages
...possessed 'the right, and the public good did not require it to be. .taken away, and as it was expedient to have as; few objections as possible to the proposed .scheme of government, he ,would leave the matter as he •found it. The abolition of slavery seemed to be going ..qn< in the... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 pages
...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...good sense of the several States would probably by de grees complete it. He urged on the Convention the necessity of despatching its business. " Col.... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - American essays - 1867 - 538 pages
...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...thought it best to leave the matter as we find it.'* The third 'voice from the North, was that of Mr. James Wilson, of Pennsylvania, pleads, not for the... | |
 | John Thomas Scharf - 1879 - 878 pages
...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...he thought it best to leave the matter as we find it."3 The third voice from the North, that of James Wilson, of Pennsylvania, pleads, not for the prohibition... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1881 - 704 pages
...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...several states would probably by degrees complete it. lie urged on the Convention the necessity of despatching its business. Col. MASON. This infernal traffic... | |
 | jefferson davis - 1881 - 778 pages
...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...thought it best to leave the matter as we find it." f "Mr. BALDWIN had conceived national objects alone to be before the Convention : not such as, like... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 786 pages
...import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, and us it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed...thought it best to leave the matter as we find it." t "Mr. BALDWIN had conceived national objects alone to be before the Convention : not such as, like... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African Americans - 1882 - 1152 pages
...importations. He would himself, as a citizen of South Carolina, vote for it." Mr. Sherman remarked that "the abolition of slavery seemed to be going...several states would probably by degrees complete it ; " and Mr. Ellsworth thought that " slavery, in time, will not be a speck in our country." Mr. Madison... | |
 | George Washington Williams - African American soldiers - 1882 - 1148 pages
...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...it best to leave the matter as we find it. - - . He urged on the Convention the necessity of despatching its business. "Col. MASON. This infernal traffic... | |
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