| John Pancoast Gordy - Political parties - 1903 - 616 pages
...prevails. Upon what principle is it that slaves shall be computed in the representation ? Are they men ? Then make them citizens and let them vote. Are they...property ? Why, then, is no other property included? The admission of slaves into the representation, when fairly explained, comes to this, that the inhabitant... | |
| United States - 1904 - 584 pages
...principle is it," said he, "that the slaves shall be computed in the representation ? Are they men ? Then make them citizens, and let them vote. Are they...worth more than all the wretched slaves who cover the rice swamps of South Carolina. The admission of slaves into the representation, when fairly explained,... | |
| Thomas Francis Moran - Political Science - 1904 - 580 pages
...principle is it," said he, " that the slaves shall be computed in the representation ? Are they men ? Then make them citizens, and let them vote. Are they...worth more than all the wretched slaves who cover the rice swamps of South Carolina. The admission of slaves into the representation, when fairly explained,... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - Constitutional history - 1905 - 318 pages
...beings. Upon what principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them citizens, and let them vote. Are they...no other property included? The houses in this city are worth more than all the wretched slaves that cover the rice swamps of South Carolina. The admission... | |
| William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - Pacific States - 1908 - 976 pages
...that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them citizens, 11 nd let them vote. Are they property? Why, then, Is no other property Included? The hous<\s In this city (Philadelphia) are worth more than all the wretched slaves who cover the riceswamps... | |
| United States. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1911 - 690 pages
...it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them Citizens & let them vote? Are they property? Why then is no other property included? The Houses in this City (Philada.) are worth more than all the wretched slaves which cover the rice swamps of South Carolina.... | |
| Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 488 pages
...in this city (Philadelphia) are worth more than all the wretched slaves that cover the rice swamps of South Carolina. The admission of slaves into the...explained, comes to this: that the inhabitant of Georgia or South Carolina, who goes to the coast of Africa, and, in defiance of the most sacred laws of humanity,... | |
| Edwin Wiley - United States - 1915 - 800 pages
..." Upon what principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them Citizens and let them vote. Are they...no other property included? The houses in this city (Philad'a) are worth more than all the wretched slaves which cover the rice swamps of South Carolina.... | |
| Marion Mills Miller - Public lands - 1916 - 446 pages
...representation? Are they men? Then make them citizens, and let them vote. Are they property? Then why is no other property included? The houses in this...[Philadelphia] are worth more than all the wretched slaves that cover the rice swamps of South Carolina. He did not believe in giving more votes to the inhuman... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - Secession - 1917 - 504 pages
...principle is it that the slaves shall be computed in the representation? Are they men? Then make them 156 citizens, and let them vote. Are they property? Why...[Philadelphia] are worth more than all the wretched slaves that cover the rice swamps of South Carolina. The admission of slaves into the representation, when... | |
| |