Thursday, August 23, 2007

Thomas Jefferson


1.Determined to keep open a market where men should be bought and sold. capturing and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere.


2.Incured miserable death in their transportation, deprived them and murdering the people, waging cruel war against human nature itself.


3.It violated the most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people.


4.The piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the christian king of Great Bitain.


5.He as prostitutede his negative for suppressing every legislative attemp to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us and to purchase that liberty of which he as deprived them.

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