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Excerpt from Speech of Mr. James Wilson, of N. Hampshire, on the Political Influence of Slavery, and the Expediency of Permitting Slavery in the Territories Recently Acquired From Mexico
They had no government. Then came the greatest trial of the patriots of the country. It was then that this question of slavery first presented itself, with its various conflicting interests, to annoy, perplex, and thwart them in their attempts to form a government of adequate strength and power, to answer all the requisite purposes of government. The people of the United Colonies had solemnly declared that all men are created equal; were endowed by nature with certain inalienable rights, among which were life and liberty, and they could not safely renounce the principles of that declaration. When they came to form a national compact. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
