By admin, 25 November, 2023

The clause too$$$ reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa$$$ was struck out in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia$$$ who had never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves$$$ and who on the contrary still wished to continue it. Our northern brethren also I believe felt a little tender under those censures; for tho' their people have very few slaves themselves yet they had been pretty considerable carriers of them to others.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

The vote being passed$$$ altho' further observn on it was out of order$$$ he could not refrain from rising and expressing his satisfaction and concluded by saying "there is but one word$$$ Mr. President$$$ in the paper which I disapprove$$$ & that is the word Congress$$$" on which Ben Harrison rose and said "there is but on word in the paper$$$ Mr. President$$$ of which I approve$$$ and that is the word Congress.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

If the present Congress errs in too much talking$$$ how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150. lawyers$$$ whose trade it is to question everything$$$ yield nothing$$$ & talk by the hour? That 150. lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected. But to return again to our subject.

By admin, 25 November, 2023

Oh! ye poor mortals$$$" she went on$$$ with a sudden burst of passion; "ye beseech your gods for the gift of many years$$$ being ignorant that ye would sow a seed within your breasts whence ye must garner ten thousand miseries. Know ye not that this world is indeed the wide house of hell$$$ in whose chambers from time to time the spirit tarries a little while$$$ then$$$ weary and aghast$$$ speeds wailing to the peace that it has won.