The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1858-11-26


From tho Charleston Mercury, Oct. 7bl
A Democratic Paper STYLES fhe
Founders oftho Government Al.
olisiOhists, 'f
N can Be proucd that most Of the lead.
ING. founders Of ms Repaklic seege 4BolJ-
hoaisis. Il Is well known that the pro-
lection Of tho slave trade was one Of tho.
charges brought against Georae III. by
Mr.. jefferson. IN his original draft OF do
De,l lraton Of Independence. This sec.
ton was struck out. Mr.. Jefferson said.
in compasance to South Carolina ami
Georgia, and the Northern people could
not with good c9nscienco denouf &c tho
king for protecting trade in which they
had acted largely rs carriers. Bat oven
among the leading men in South Carolina
there were to be found large shareholders
whose sentiment were utterly opposed 10
the whole systeti
IN Tho Fede al Convention. southern
sentiment was j-"idodlv opposed To NO
slave trade IHe Specth,. 81 49,, -
IirliPiu, are tke drDl0Tg ~ s.,. .stsss5 ~
A5oii6onisil uj modern Hmes hare furnish.
ed tAcir Qaivefs; and had It not been Tor
he determined stand Of John Rudedeo
on tho subject. the Federal Constitution
would have sligmatized the southern pnr.
tion Of the confoderacy. With the pre-.
phetic spirit Of statesmen he defended The
interests Of his ooustituen s. and found an
ally in Connecticut, whilv Virginia aad
Maryland, yielding 20 sickly sentiments
ality, we're willing TO put the seal Of rep.
rotation upon their own character.
On the lQtb Of February. 1900, just
nine months aud twelve days after The in
lauguration Of Washington, tho petition Of
benjamin Franklin, President Of Tie
Pennsylvania Society for the Abolition Of
Slavery, was presented TO the House OF
Representatives, praying the Congress to
carry out in behalf If the negro slaves
| those powers with which Congress is hap
IpNy Invested "for promoting The welfare
and securing the blessings of liberty to
the people of the United States" The
reference Of this petition, aud another from
lthe yearly meetings Of Quakers on the
(subiect of the slave trade, was opposed by
MIR. Tucker and Mr. Smith, Of South Car.
lo!ina. on the ground That tho petitions
asked what was distinctly refused by the
Constitution; butthey were overruled, and
among the voters In the majority are tho
uamei Of Clymer, FitzNmons, Gerry, Gil
man, Madison, and Sherman, all OF whom
were, with Franklin, members of he Cone
vention that formed the Constitution
MIR. Madison admitted that the paper was,
IN some degree, unconstitutional. but thrt
there ware various ways in which the
views Of the petitioners might be advauc-
ed The only member of the Convention
who voted in the negative was Mr.. Bald
win, Of Georgia. SO much for the sacred
obligation Of The compact on The minds of
those who had actually brought IL iut1
ex-islence - #M
In the debate on tho reference Of tho
abolition petition to whiehI referred some
: of the principal speakers were Nirgiuia
delegates, and when the question was carr
I, ried by vote Of 43 to II, the whole y ir-
ginia delegation, excepting Theodore
Bland and Isaac Cole, voted with the ma
I iority; three out Of the four dslegates.f
y Maryland supported the petition. Mr.
Stone, Of Maryland, and Mr. Sylvester.
of New York, and the two YirgniAns last
named. voted with the South Carolina
and Georgia delegations against the ref
erenee. | have already shown that six
Of the gentlemen who thus early in our
history attempted, by their votes on this
, occasion to make the Constita.ion a nose
Of wax. had been members of tho Fedeal
Convention.
have been at some pains, some may
think unnecessary, to expose the abolition
tendencies of our ancestors But il is not
without its use.
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