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February 16, 1861 Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention, Volume
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... it—but that it is proper to declare through the Convention now assembled, her opposition to the coercion, under existing circumstances, of any slave State, and an unalterable determination not to submit to any Administration of the Government in which her rights are assailed or not fully ...
February 16, 1861 Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention, Volume
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She has done it in the whole tier of counties along the Ohio river. You can no more own a slave there than on the other side of the Ohio. She maintains a terminus for an underground railroad within her territory, and she has brought you to test what have been the rights of Vir ...
February 16, 1861 Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention, Volume
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... that there is a conflict of interest between Virginia and the cotton States, more especially if their policy be to re-open the African slave trade, or make free ports and adopt the system of direct taxation, which would be absolutely ruinous to Virginia. I never will go wi ...
February 18, 1861 Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention, Volume
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... that is, that we held out a threat in the way of a provision in our Constitution that Congress shall have power to stop the inter-State slave trade. I do not hesitate to say to you, that in my opinion, if you do not join us but join the North, that provision ...
... join the North, that provision would be put in force. I think that these States would do all in their power to keep the border States slave States. It would be a mere instinct of self-preservation to do that, and I think that it would be done. But is this to be regarded a ...
February 18, 1861 Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention, Volume
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As regards the African slave trade, we have done what we could to expel the illusion which is said to deter some timid persons from uniting with us. Our State has given her voice against it, and so has Alabama, and finally the Convention at Montgomery has placed the ban upon i ...
... bama, and finally the Convention at Montgomery has placed the ban upon it by a Constitutional provision. Suppose we re-open the African slave trade, what would be the result? Why, we would be soon drowned in a black pool; we would be literally overwhelmed with a black popul ...
February 18, 1861 Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention, Volume
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... ey do now, and treat you accordingly. Suppose they elevated Sumner to the Presidency? Suppose they elevated Fred. Douglas, your escaped slave , to the Presidency? And there are hundreds of thousands at the North who would do this for the purpose of humiliating and insulting ...
February 18, 1861 Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention, Volume
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... there bodies of troops. It could be easily made part of the duty of these officers to keep strict watch along there and intercept every slave , and keep proper surveillance on all who may come within the line of particular localities. Is not that arrangement better than any ...
... keep proper surveillance on all who may come within the line of particular localities. Is not that arrangement better than any fugitive slave law that you could get? Most assuredly it is. If we were separated from the North, the escape of a fugitive slave into their territo ...
... ter than any fugitive slave law that you could get? Most assuredly it is. If we were separated from the North, the escape of a fugitive slave into their territory would be but the addition of one savage to the number they have already.
February 18, 1861 Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention, Volume
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... evil is separation was well-founded. She also was convinced that separation would be the best, if not the only remedy for the fugitive slave evil and for the territorial evil. It may be asked, sir, if the personal liberty bills, if the election of Lincoln by a sectional ma ...
February 18, 1861 Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention, Volume
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... have been secured to give the necessary preponderance to change the Constitution. There is a process going on by which some of our own slave States are becoming free States already. It is true, that in some of the slave States the slave population is actually on the decrea ...
... on. There is a process going on by which some of our own slave States are becoming free States already. It is true, that in some of the slave States the slave population is actually on the decrease, and, I believe it is true of all of them that it is relatively to the white ...
... ocess going on by which some of our own slave States are becoming free States already. It is true, that in some of the slave States the slave population is actually on the decrease, and, I believe it is true of all of them that it is relatively to the white population on th ...
... d Maryland ; and it shows that in the other States in the same parallel, the relative state of the decrease and increase is against the slave population. It is not wonderful that this should be so. The anti-slavery feeling has got to be so great at the North that the owners ...
... population. It is not wonderful that this should be so. The anti-slavery feeling has got to be so great at the North that the owners of slave property in these States have a presentiment that it is a doomed institution, and the instincts of self-interest impels them to get ...
February 18, 1861 Proceedings of the Virginia State Convention, Volume
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... the effect of this conviction was strengthened by a further conviction that such a separation would be the best remedy for the fugitive slave evil, and also the best, if not the only remedy, for the territorial evil. But, doubtless, if it had not been for the first convicti ...