This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...emancipationists, yet so powerful and despotic was the slaveholding class, and so indifferent were the masses of the people, that Washington, writing to Lafayette in 1785, only two years after the close of the war fought in the name of human equality, confessed that " petitions for the abolition of ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1878 edition. Excerpt: ...emancipationists, yet so powerful and despotic was the slaveholding class, and so indifferent were the masses of the people, that Washington, writing to Lafayette in 1785, only two years after the close of the war fought in the name of human equality, confessed that " petitions for the abolition of slavery presented to the Virginia legislature could scarcely obtain a hearing." Thus it happened that the same people, speaking in the language of their most humane and cultivated men, --divines, philanthropists, statesmen, and illustrious Revolutionary leaders, --uttered the clear, ringing words of liberty; while by their legislation, under the malign influence of slavery, they gave the lie to these utterances and framed iniquity into law. CHAPTER III. SLAVERY IN THE TEBRITORIE8.--ORDINANCE OF 1787. Public Domain.--Cessions of Territory by the States.--Mr. Jefferson's proposed Inhibition of Slavery in the Territories.--Ordinance of 1787, reported by Nathan Dane.--Adopted by Congress.--Sanctioned by First Congress under the Constitution.--Efforts to suspend it in Indiana.--Blessings of the Ordinance of 1787.--Cessions of North Carolina and Georgia, with Limitations concerning Slavery.--The Mississippi Territory.--Debate on Mr. Thatcher's Antislavery Amendment. The Treaty of Peace, by which the independence of the thirteen British Colonies-was acknowledged, was signed at Paris on the 30th of November, 1782. Beyond the western boundaries of the States, and between the 31st and 47th parallels of latitude, lay a vast and fertile territory, conceded to be embraced within the limits of the new Republic. Not only were these rich lands looked to as a source of revenue for the payment of the debt incurred in the War of Independence, but the far-seeing...
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