[27] See Ford, Pamphlets, etc., p. 54.
[28] Ford, Pamphlets, etc., p. 146.
[29] “Address to the Freemen of South
Carolina on the Subject
of the Federal
Constitution”: Ibid., p. 378.
[30] Published in the New York Packet,
Jan. 22, 1788;
reprinted in Dawson’s
Foederalist, I. 290-1.
[31] Elliot, Debates, II. 452.
[32] Elliot, Debates, IV. 296-7.
[33] Published in Debates of the Massachusetts
Convention,
1788, p. 217 ff.
[34] Elliot, Debates, IV. 100-1.
[35] Published in Debates of the Massachusetts
Convention,
1788, p. 208.
[36] Ibid.
[37] Elliot, Debates, III. 452-3.
[38] Walker, Federal Convention of New Hampshire,
App. 113;
Elliot, Debates,
II. 203.
[39] Elliot, Debates, IV. 273.
[40] Updike’s Minutes, in Staples,
Rhode Island in the
Continental Congress,
pp. 657-8, 674-9. Adopted by a majority
of one in a convention
of seventy.
[41] In five States I have found no mention
of the subject
(Delaware, New
Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, and Maryland). In
the Pennsylvania
convention there was considerable debate,
partially preserved
in Elliot’s and Lloyd’s Debates.
In the
Massachusetts
convention the debate on this clause occupied a
part of two or
three days, reported in published debates. In
South Carolina
there were several long speeches, reported in
Elliot’s
Debates. Only three speeches made in the
New
Hampshire convention
seem to be extant, and two of these are
on the slave-trade:
cf. Walker and Elliot. The Virginia
convention discussed
the clause to considerable extent: see
Elliot. The
clause does not seem to have been a cause of North
Carolina’s
delay in ratification, although it occasioned some
discussion:
see Elliot. In Rhode Island “much debate
ensued,”
and in this State
alone was an amendment proposed: see
Staples, Rhode
Island in the Continental Congress. In New
York the Committee
of the Whole “proceeded through sections 8,
9 ... with little
or no debate”: Elliot, Debates, II.
406.
[42] South Carolina, Georgia, and North Carolina.
North
Carolina had,
however, a prohibitive duty.
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Chapter VII
TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE AND ANTI-SLAVERY EFFORT, 1787-1806.