 | United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 708 pages
...idea is a proper one for the committee to adopt, I see no difficulty in changing the phraseology. I conceive the constitution, in this particular, was...sense of America with respect to the African trade. We have liberty to impose a tax or duty upon the importation of such persons, as any of the States... | |
 | William Ingersoll Bowditch - Enslaved persons - 1849 - 182 pages
...If it is taken up in a separate view, we shall do the same thing, at a greater expense of time " I conceive the Constitution, in this particular, was...sense of America with respect to the African trade. We have liberty to impose a tax or duty upon the importation of such persons as any of the States now... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1849 - 744 pages
...be prohibited for twenty years, was inserted, he believed, for the very purpose of enabling Congress to give some testimony of the sense of America with respect to the African trade. By expressing a national disapprobation of that trade, it is to be hoped we may destroy it, and so-... | |
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1851 - 716 pages
...be prohibited for twenty years, was inserted, he believed, for the very purpose of enabling Congress to give some testimony of the sense of America with respect to the African trade. By expressing a national disapprobation of that trade, it is to be hoped we may destroy it, and so... | |
 | William Goodell - History - 1852 - 810 pages
...prudent policy, require it of us. The Constitution has particularly called our attention to it. * * I conceive the Constitution in this particular was formed...hoped, that by expressing a national disapprobation of the trade, we may destroy it, and save our country from reproaches, and our posterity from the imbecility... | |
 | William Goodell - Antislavery movements - 1853 - 632 pages
...prudent policy, require it of as. The Constitution has particularly called our attention to it. * * I conceive the Constitution in this particular was formed...trade. * * * It is to be hoped, that by expressing i national disapprobation of the trade, we may destroy it, and save our country from reproaches, and... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Constitutional law - 1856 - 220 pages
...idea is a proper one for the committee to adopt, I see no difficulty in changing the phraseology. I conceive the Constitution, in this particular, was...sense of America with respect to the African trade. We have liberty to impose a tax or duty upon the importation of such persons as any of the States now... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 822 pages
...idea is a proper one for the committee to adopt, I see no difficulty in changing the phraseology. I conceive the constitution, in this particular, was...sense of America with respect to the African trade. "We have liberty to impose a tax or duty upon the importation of such persons, as any of the States... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 828 pages
...£B idea is a proper one for the committee to adopt, I see no difficulty in changing the fooncevve the constitution, in this particular, was formed in...sense of America with respect to the African trade. We have liberty to impose a tax or duty upon the importation of such persons, as any of the States... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...principles of the people, tho national safety and happiness, and prudent policy, require it of us. It is to be hoped, that by expressing a national disapprobation of the trade, we may destroy it, and save our country from reproaches, and our posterity from the imbecility... | |
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I conceive the Constitution in this particular was formed in order that the Government, whilst it was restrained from laying a total prohibition, might be able to give some testimony of the sense of America, with respect to the African trade. 
