 | Daniel Parker - Constitutional law - 1848 - 172 pages
...Carolina, and Georgia, will ever agree to the plan, unless their right to import slaves be untouched, their expectation is vain. The people of those States will...such fools as to give up so important an interest." Many members from the North would have left the matter entirely with the States where slavery existed,... | |
 | Franklin Dexter, William Jay - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1851 - 64 pages
...North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia will ever agree to this plan [the Federal Constitution] unless their right to import slaves be untouched,...such fools as to give up so important an interest." In other words, "Gentlemen of the North, no Union without the African slave-trade." Said Mr. Charles... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1852 - 90 pages
...North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, will ever agree to this plan [the Federal Constitution] unless their right to import slaves be untouched,...such fools as to give up so important an interest" Charles Pinckney said : " South Carolina can never receive the plan [of the Constitution] if it prohibits... | |
 | William Jay - Slavery - 1853 - 684 pages
...(the Federal Constitution) unless their right to import slaves be untouched, the expectation is VAIJT. The people of those States will never be such fools as to give up so important an interest." In other words, " Gentlemen of the North, no Union without tke African slave-trade." Said Mr. Charles... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...said Rutledge, ' that North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, will ever agree to VOL. I. — 39 the plan, unless their right to import slaves be untouched,...such fools as to give up so important an interest.' The subject was referred to a committee of one member from each State ; and to this committee was also... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Constitutional law - 1856 - 220 pages
...RUTLEDGE. .If the Convention thinks that North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, will ever agree to the plan, unless their right to import slaves be...strenuous against striking out the section, and seconded the motion of Gen. PINCKNEY for a commitment. Mr. GouvERNEtnt MORRIS wished the whole subject to be... | |
 | Samuel Batchelder - History - 1856 - 16 pages
...Carolina said, "If the convention thinks that North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia will ever agree to the plan, unless their right to import slaves be...strenuous against striking out the section, and seconded the motion of Gen. Pinckney for a commitment." * Mr. Sherman of Connecticut said " it was better to... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1856 - 736 pages
...North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, will ever agree to this plan [the Federal Constitution] unless their right to import slaves be untouched,...such fools as to give up so important an interest." Charles Pinckney said: "South Carolina can never receive the plan [of the Constitution} if it prohibits... | |
 | American essays - 1891 - 906 pages
...nations." " If the Convention thinks that North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia will ever agree to the plan, unless their right to import slaves be untouched, the expectation is vain." In this resolution he was inflexible. It was fortified by his training, his temperament, and his experience... | |
 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1860 - 558 pages
...Rutledge. If the Convention thinks that North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, will ever agree to the plan, unless their right to import slaves be...fools as to give up so important an interest. He was against striking out the section, and seconded the motion of General Pinckney for a commitment. Mr.... | |
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If the convention thinks that North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia will ever agree to the plan, unless their right to import slaves be untouched, the expectation is vain. The people of those states will never be such fools as to give up so important... 
