The Sectional Controversy: Or, Passages in the Political History of the United States, Including the Causes of the War Between the Sections, with Certain ResultsC. Scribner, 1868 - 388 Seiten |
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... duty on imported slaves . This proposal was acceptable to the Southern States , but not to the Northern ; for the delegates from the latter thought that slaves imported ought to be placed under the general provision for taxing imports ...
... duty on imported slaves . This proposal was acceptable to the Southern States , but not to the Northern ; for the delegates from the latter thought that slaves imported ought to be placed under the general provision for taxing imports ...
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... duty at a rate not exceeding the average of other imports . " DEBATE IN THE CONVENTION . General PINCKNEY , August 25 , moved to strike out the year 1800 , and insert 1808 . Mr. GORHAM , of Massachusetts , seconded the motion . It was ...
... duty at a rate not exceeding the average of other imports . " DEBATE IN THE CONVENTION . General PINCKNEY , August 25 , moved to strike out the year 1800 , and insert 1808 . Mr. GORHAM , of Massachusetts , seconded the motion . It was ...
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... duty , there- fore , was inserted instead of " a fair average of other imports , " the phrase used in the report of the committee . Thus the price of a slave was reckoned at two hundred dollars by the Con- vention . Mr. CHARLES PINCKNEY ...
... duty , there- fore , was inserted instead of " a fair average of other imports , " the phrase used in the report of the committee . Thus the price of a slave was reckoned at two hundred dollars by the Con- vention . Mr. CHARLES PINCKNEY ...
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... duty on foreign imports for their own advantage as manufac- turers ; secondly , to put an end to the slave trade in twenty years , and thereby to prevent , in some degree , the increase of slave representation , for their own political ...
... duty on foreign imports for their own advantage as manufac- turers ; secondly , to put an end to the slave trade in twenty years , and thereby to prevent , in some degree , the increase of slave representation , for their own political ...
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... duty on slaves as on other imports , it recognizes them as " property . " There were men in the Convention who had no objections to slaves being property , and to owning them as property , who thought that it was not judicious to name ...
... duty on slaves as on other imports , it recognizes them as " property . " There were men in the Convention who had no objections to slaves being property , and to owning them as property , who thought that it was not judicious to name ...
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