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C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Section Fifth: Senatorial career. (search)
the extent of an absolute restraint on Congress. John Rutledge said: If the Convention thinks North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia will ever agree to this plan [the Federal Constitution] 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 an interest. Charles Pinckney said: South Carolina can never receive the plan [of the Constitution] if it prohibits the slave trade. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney thought himself bound to declare candidly, that he did not think South Carolina would stop her importation of slaves in any short time. The effrontery of the slave-masters was matched by the sordidness of the Eastern members, who yielded again. Luther Martin, the eminent member of the Convention, in his contemporary address to the Legislature of Maryland, has described the compromise. I found, he says, that the Eastern members, notwithstanding their aversion to slavery, were ve
C. Edwards Lester, Life and public services of Charles Sumner: Born Jan. 6, 1811. Died March 11, 1874., Xiii. (search)
the extent of an absolute restraint on Congress. John Rutledge said: If the Convention thinks North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia will ever agree to this plan [the Federal Constitution] 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 an interest. Charles Pinckney said: South Carolina can never receive the plan [of the Constitution] if it prohibits the slave trade. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney thought himself bound to declare candidly, that he did not think South Carolina would stop her importation of slaves in any short time. The effrontery of the slave-masters was matched by the sordidness of the Eastern members, who yielded again. Luther Martin, the eminent member of the Convention, in his contemporary address to the Legislature of Maryland, has described the compromise. I found, he says, that the Eastern members, notwithstanding their aversion to slavery, were ve