...on the approach of the period when you may interpose your authority constitutionally to withdraw as citizens of the United States from all further participation...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." It was a reform worthy of the new spirit of the age. In England, Parliament at this very time was debating...

...attention of Congress to the approach of the period at which the federal government might prohibit "those violations of human rights which have been...Africa, and which the morality, the reputation, and the Vst interests of our country have long been eager to p1oscribe." In answer, Senator Bradley of Vermont...

...will be (my) last and fondest prayer. (To David Barrow, 1815.) I CONGRATULATE you, fellow citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose...of human rights which have been so long continued upon the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, 3. 421 and which the morality, the reputation, and the...

...the year 1808. As that time approached, President Jefferson urged Congress to withdraw the country from all "further participation in those violations of human rights which have so long been continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa." The act provided for was at once...

...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...human rights which have been so long continued on the unoflFending inhabitants of Africa." And in a letter written only seven weeks before his death (dated...

...United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which have so long been continued on the unoffending inhabitants of .Africa,...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." An act was accordingly passed prohibiting the slave trade and imposing forfeitures and fines upon ships...

...Vol. I, col. 336. 'Suppression of the Slave Trade, DuBois, p. 80. VIRGINIA'S EFFORTS TO ABOLISH IT 35 unoffending inhabitants of Africa, and which the morality,...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." An act was accordingly passed prohibiting the slave trade and imposing forfeitures and fines upon ships...

...words: "I congratulate you, fellow-citizens, on the approach :if the period at which you may intsrpose your authority constitutionally to withdraw the citizens...the United States from all further participation in these violations of human rights which have so long continued on the unoffending inhabitant of Africa,...

...on the approach of the period when you may interpose your authority constitutionally to withdraw as citizens of the United States from all further participation...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." It was a reform worthy of the new spirit of the age. In England, Parliament at this very time was debating...