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 671859 - 280 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Constitutional history - 2003 - 808 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...Convention the necessity of despatching its business. Col. MASON. This infernal traffic originated in the avarice of British merchants. The British Government... | |
| Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...principle. But Sherman maintained the high road. He "disapproved of the slave trade... it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of Government. ..the abolition of slavery seemed to be 39. James Madison, The Debates in the Federal Convention Of... | |
| Donald J. Meyers - History - 2005 - 284 pages
...principle. But Sherman maintained the high road. He "disapproved of the slave trade... it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of Government...the abolition of slavery seemed to be 39. James Madison, The Debates in the Federal Convention... | |
| A. J. Langguth - Ontario - 2006 - 499 pages
...Connecticut colleague, Roger Sherman, agreed. He disapproved of slavery, Sherman said, but it was "expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of government." Sherman argued that it was "best to leave the matter as we find it." The subject was too emotional... | |
| Mark A. Graber - History - 2006 - 300 pages
...constitutional protections for human bondage because "the abolition of slavery seemed to be going on in the US & that the good sense of the several states would probably by degrees compleat it." "Let us not intermeddle," Ellsworth agreed. "As population increases," he claimed, "poor... | |
| Jeff Broadwater - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 352 pages
...objections to the Constitution. The abolition of slavery had already begun, and he reassured the convention "that the good sense of the several states would probably by degrees compleat it." Mason responded with a bitter attack on the institution of slavery itself, the most bitter... | |
| Scott J. Hammond, Kevin R. Hardwick, Howard Leslie Lubert - History - 2007 - 1236 pages
...to import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, & as it was expedient , to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial...Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line: Provided, US & that the good sense of the several States would probably by degrees compleat it. He urged on the... | |
| Jonathan Mercantini - History - 2007 - 350 pages
...Carolinians was that they believed that slavery was slowly, but inevitably, dying out. Roger Sherman believed that "the abolition of slavery seemed to be going on in the US & that the good sense of the several States would probably by degrees compleat it."45 With the increase... | |
| United States - 1895 - 658 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... | |
| 1864 - 706 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. Col. Mason ; (of Virginia, said,) this infernal traffic originated in the... | |
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