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
| Thomas Francis Moran - Political Science - 1904 - 580 pages
...themselves." Mr. Sherman reinforced this view. He would not introduce the innovation. He deemed it "expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of government." Mr. Pinckney, however, was not conciliatory. " South Carolina," he declared, " can never receive the... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - Constitutional history - 1905 - 318 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...scheme of government, he thought it best to leave the clause as it stood. Mr. Mason, of Virginia, said: "This infernal traffic originated in the avarice... | |
| Edward Waterman Townsend - Constitutional history - 1906 - 332 pages
...import slaves, as the public good did not require that it 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." New England was to let slavery alone if the Caro-^ linas and Georgia would let Congress regulate com-... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1908 - 102 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...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... | |
| Howard Walter Caldwell, Clark Edmund Persinger - United States - 1909 - 544 pages
...prohibits the slave trade. . . . Mr. Sherman [Conn.] was for leaving the clause as it stands. . . . He observed that the abolition of slavery seemed to...several States would probably by degrees complete it. ... Col. Mason [Va.]. This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of British merchants. . . . The... | |
| William Passmore Pickett - African Americans - 1909 - 608 pages
...Roger Sherman, of Connecticut, one of the strong minds of the Convention, is on record as having stated that the abolition of slavery seemed to be going on...sense of the several states would probably by degrees bring it to completion. His colleague, Oliver Ellsworth, expressed himself to the effect that slavery... | |
| John Temple Graves, Clark Howell, Walter Williams - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 328 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." — Page 457. "Mr. Baldwin had conceived national objects alone to be before the convention; not such... | |
| United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional history - 1911 - 680 pages
...to import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, & as it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed...abolition of slavery seemed to be going on in the US 1Upon this question, see above, July 23, August 8, and August 21, and Appendix A, CXLVIII, CLI,... | |
| United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1911 - 690 pages
...amendment of the 1st clause of the report of the Committee of eleven Wednesday MADISON August 22 & that the good sense of the several States would probably by degrees compleat it. He urged on the Convention the necessity of despatching its business.) Col. Mason. This... | |
| New England - 1914 - 350 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...government, he thought it best to leave the matter as we found it.f Ellsworth was for taking a middle and moderate ground; "he was afraid," he said, "we should... | |
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