| Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
...was as follow*: — " WE WILL NEITHER IMPORT NOR PURCHASE ANT SLAVE IMPORTED AFTEK THE " FIRST DAV or DECEMBER NEXT, AFTER WHICH TIME WE WILL WHOL"LY DISCONTINUE THE SLAVE TRADE, ANP WILL NEITHER EE CONCERN"ED IN IT oms ELVES, NOR WILL WE HIRE ora VESSELS, NOR SELL OL-R COMMODITIES... | |
| Theodore Dwight Weld - Enslaved persons - 1838 - 66 pages
...to others, therefore," &c. October 20, 1774, the Continental Congress passed the following : " We, for ourselves and the inhabitants of the several colonies...time we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and we will neither be concerned 4 in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities... | |
| Pennsylvania. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1838 - 360 pages
...independence, the American congress unanimously adopted a declaration, of which the following is an extract : " We will neither import nor purchase any slaves imported, after the first of December next, after which we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1845 - 652 pages
...firmly agree and associate, under the sacred ties of virtue, honor and love of country, as follows : we will neither import nor purchase any slaves imported...next, after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave-trade, and we will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell... | |
| Slavery - 1845 - 96 pages
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| Oliver Cromwell Gardiner - Campaign literature - 1848 - 356 pages
...wares, or merchandise, &c. " 2d. We will neither import nor purchase any slave imported, after the 1st day of December next; after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, or sell our commodities, or manufactures,... | |
| William Cothren - Bethlehem (Conn. : Town) - 1854 - 872 pages
...ye Western Islands nor Foreign Indigo " Second " that we will neither Import nor purchase any Slave Imported after the first Day of December Next . . after which time we will Wholly Descontinue the Slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves nor will we hire our vessels... | |
| United States - 1856 - 654 pages
...neither import nor purchase any slave imported ahtr rhc 1st d.iy of December next, after which lime we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will...neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we 1me our vessels, nor sell our commodities nor man ufac tores, to those who are concerned in it." Hy... | |
| United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 788 pages
...associate, under the sacred ties of virtue, honor, and love of our country, as follows : " Article 2. We will neither import nor purchase any slaves imported...next, after which time we will wholly discontinue the alave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourlelves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell... | |
| Charles Wyllys Elliott - America - 1857 - 512 pages
...firmly agree and associate, under the sacred ties of virtue, honor, and love of country, as follows : we will neither import nor purchase any slaves imported...next, after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave-trade, and we will neither be concerned in it ourselves, nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell... | |
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