...particular circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purcase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by Jaw." Ten years later, llth December, 1796, in a long communication to Sir John Sinclair, he assigns,...

...circumstances shall compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished bylaw." — Washington. IN November of last year an article appeared in the New York Observer, and...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase ; it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." But we waive here the question of extinction ; that which, as history most clearly shows, the fathers...

...Washington speak for them. " It is among my first wishes," he said, in a letter to John Fenton Mercer, " to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may he abolished by law" And in his will, penned with his own hand, in the last year of his life, he bore...

...circumstance should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country шау be abolished by law." Again, to his reasons for the depreciation of Southern lands in a letter...

...be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. Washington. It is among my first wishes, to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law. Jefferson. Nobody wishes more ardently than I to see an abolition not only of the trade but of the...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — Ibid. And in a letter to Sir John Sinclair, he further said : " There are in Pennsylvania laws...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law."—Ibid. And irt a letter to Sir John Sinclair, he further said : " There are in Pennsylvania...

...Washington speak for them. „It is among my first wishes," he said, in a letter to John Fenton Mercer, „to see some plan adopted by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law.'-' And in bis will, penned with bis own band, in the last year of his life, he bore bis testimony again,...

...circumstances should compel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law." — September 9^, 1786. I will make no apology for writing to you on this subject, for, if Mr. Dalby...