...slave trade. " I congratulate you, fellow citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw...in those violations of human rights which have been eo long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality, the reputation,...

...will be requisite. I congratulate you, fellow citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw...Although no law you may pass can take prohibitory eifect till the first day of the year one thousand eight hundred and eight, yet the intervening period...

...slave-trade. He says : " I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority, constitutionally, to withdraw...participation in those violations of human rights which have so long been continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Af rica, and which the morality, the reputation,...

...congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority to withdraw the citizens of the United States from...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Congress, impatient to interpose its authority, in the early part of the year 1807 passed an act to...

...congratulated Congress on the approach of the period when the citizens of the Union might be withdrawn " from all further participation in those violations...best interests of our country have long been eager to promote." Legislative measures were taken accordingly, and on the 1st of January, 1808, the American...

...in which Congress could constitutionally terminate all participation of American citizens in wrongs, "which the morality, the reputation, and the best...of our country have long been eager to proscribe," *as made the subject of congratulatory reference by President Jefferson", a' the opening of the session....

...which Congress could constitutionally terminate -all participation of American citizens in wrongs, "which the morality, the reputation, and the best...of our country have long been eager to proscribe," was made the subject of congratulatory reference by President Jefferson, at the opening of the session....

...in which Congress could constitutionally terminate all participation of American citizens in wrongs, "which the morality, the reputation, and the best...our country have long been eager to proscribe,'.' was made the subject of congratulatory reference by President Jefferson, at the opening of the session....

...fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may constitutionally interpose your authority to withdraw the citizens of the United States from...continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa.' And in a letter written only seven weeks before his death (dated May 20, 1826), he says, ' My sentiments...

...fellow-citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may constitutionally interpose your authority to withdraw the citizens of the United States from...continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa.' And in a letter written only seven weeks before his death (dated May 20, 1826), he says, ' My sentiments...