 | James Schouler - 1882 - Страниц: 554
...for the purpose of supplying foreigners with slaves, and of providing, by proper regulations, for the humane treatment during their passage of slaves imported...citizens into the States admitting such importation. (4th.) That Congress have also authority to prohibit foreigners from fitting out vessels in any port... | |
 | Edwin Wiley - 1915 - Страниц: 800
...for the purpose of supplying foreigners with slaves, and of providing, by proper regulations, for the humane treatment during their passage of slaves imported...citizens into the States admitting such importation. " 4. That Congress have also authority to prohibit foreigners from fitting out vessels in any port... | |
 | Carter Godwin Woodson - 1922 - Страниц: 434
...for the purpose of supplying foreigners with slaves, and of providing by proper regulations for the humane treatment, during their passage, of slaves...citizens into the States admitting such importation." Strike out the seventh clause. Ordered, that the said report of the Committee of the Whole House do... | |
 | Carter G. Woodson - 2008 - Страниц: 414
...for the purpose of supplying foreigners with slaves, and of providing by proper regulations for the humane treatment, during their passage, of slaves...citizens into the States admitting such importation." Strike out the seventh elause. Ordered, that the said report of the Committee of the Whole House do... | |
 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - 1839 - Страниц: 582
...from time to time judge expedient to communicate. I have the honor to be, &.c. humane treatment, duhng their passage, of slaves imported by the said citizens...Congress prohibited the importation of slaves by an act, which took effect in the year 1808. By a subsequent act, passed in the year 1820, the slave-trade... | |
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Such was considered by a majority of Congress as a just interpretation of the constitution on this subject. The first paragraph is a recital of the clause in the constitution, which refers to the slave-trade as then existing. 
