..." to possess another slave by purchase." In a letter written to Mr. Morris in that year he says: " There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely...slavery. But there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority ; and this, as far as my suffrage...

...my heart to hold the unhappy people, who are the subject of this letter, in slavery. I can only say, there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely...than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it." Reader, you may, perhaps, complain or disapprove of my digressions from the subject of my own...

...words in regard to his desires and intentions: To ROBT. MORRIS, April 12, 1786: I can only say that there Is not a man living who •wishes more sincerely...than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it [slavery] ; but there is only one proper and effectual mode in which it can be accomplished, and...

...unhappy people, who are the subject of this letter, in slavery. I can only say, there is not a rnan living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it." Reader, you may, perhaps, complain or disapprove of my digressions from the subject of my own...

...offensive to God, and destructive to the safety, happiness, and prosperity of the people. Washington said, "There is, not a man living who wishes more...; but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by legislative authority ; and this, so far as my suffrages...

...must be the greater." — Memorial of Citizens of New Inverness, Georgia^ to Gen. Oglethorpe, 1739. " There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a flan adopted for the, abolition of it, (Slavery ;) but there is only one proper and effectual mode...

...existence of it. John Wesley denounced it as "the sum of all villainies," Said Washington : "there is no man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it." Madison thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution, the idea that there could be property in...

...name, and that has been ever carrying out his emancipation principles. In 1786 he wrote to Morris: "There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely...slavery. But there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is, by legislative authority ; and this, as far as my suffrage...

...has been ever carrying out his emancipation principles. In 1780 he wrote to Morris: "There is not » man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to...slavery. But there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is, by legislative authority ; and this, as far as my suffrage...

...inhabitants thereof." General Washington in a letter to Robert Morris written in 1786, speaking of slavery, said: "There is not a man living who wishes more sincerely...than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it." The great leading lawyer and patriot of Maryland, Luther Martin, advocated the abolition of slavery...