 | New Hampshire Historical Society - Local history - 1837 - 328 pages
...and so forcibly, is, hereby it is conceived (if we ratify the constitution) that we become consentcrs to, and partakers in, the sin and guilt of this abominable traffic, at least for a certain period,t without any positive stipulation * See Appendix, No. II. t It is a remarkable fact and deserves... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - Local history - 1837 - 320 pages
...that no restriction should be put upon the importation of slaves for the succeeding TWENTY YEARS l that it shall even then be brought to an end. We do not behold in it that valuable acquisition, so much boasted of by the honorable member from Portsmouth — [the name... | |
 | Theology - 1843 - 424 pages
...Constitution on this ground alone ; for, said he, " If we ratify the Constitution, we become consenters to and partakers in the sin and guilt of this abominable traffic." By the Constitution, also, a larger than its due share of representation and influence was secured... | |
 | George Livermore - African Americans - 1862 - 246 pages
...and so forcibly, is, hereby it is conceived (if we ratify the Constitution) that we become consenters to, and partakers in, the sin and guilt of this abominable...certain period, without any positive stipulation that it should even then be brought to an end. We do not behold in it that valuable acquisition so much boasted... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1863 - 548 pages
...and so forcibly, is, hereby it is conceived (if we ratify the Constitution) that we become consenters to, and partakers in, the sin and guilt of this abominable...certain period, without any positive stipulation that it should even then be brought to an end. We do not behold in it that valuable acquisition so much boasted... | |
 | Joseph Burbeen Walker - Concord (N.H.) - 1888 - 172 pages
...so forcibly is,— hereby it is conceived (if we ratify the Constitution) that we become consenters to and partakers in the sin. and guilt of this abominable...even then be brought to an end. We do not behold in it that valuable acquisition, (?) so much boasted of by the honorable member from Portsmouth, "that... | |
 | Joseph Burbeen Walker - Concord (N.H.) - 1888 - 148 pages
...without any positive stipulation that it shall even then be brought to an end. We do not behold in it that valuable acquisition, (?) so much boasted of by the honorable member from Portsmouth, '1'-that an end is. then to be put to slavery." Congress may be as much or more puzzled to put a stop... | |
 | Religion - 1889 - 560 pages
...forcibly those who are opposed to this clause, is that if we ratify this constitution we become consenters to, and partakers in, the sin and guilt of this abominable...stipulation that it shall even then be brought to an end. . . . Congress may be as much or more puzzled to put a stop to it then than we are now. . . . 'We do... | |
 | William Edward Burghardt Du Bois - Slave trade - 1896 - 360 pages
...so forcibly is, — hereby it is conceived (if we ratify the Constitution) that we become consenters to and partakers in the sin and guilt of this abominable...stipulation that it shall even then be brought to an end."6 In the South Carolina convention Lowndes, January 16, 1788, attacked the slave-trade clause.... | |
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The idea that strikes those who are opposed to this clause so disagreeably and so forcibly is,— hereby it is conceived (if we ratify the Constitution) that we become consenters to and partakers in the sin. and guilt of this abominable traffic... 
