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The people have formally as independent states, by their individual votes as citizens, by their muni- cipal or state legislations, and unitedly by the enactments of their national legislature, applied their seal of approbation to it in all its spirit, its parts and provisions. We have cast the shield of the nation over the whole system, including not only, as limited by the significant terms of our federal com- pact, the states then existing ^hut others afterwards admitted ; and for the purpose... of traffic till the year 1808, including both Africa and the Ocean. And for the price of ten dol- lars tax on every imported African, we have till that date pledged protection to every slave dealer and vender, and to every slave holder, for ever, unless unitedly we consent to amend the constitution. • The obligation rests, therefore, on the people and nation — the claim is against them. Their public and national acts have sanctioned the system, have given value to the lure of gain connected with it, and by their pledge have enlisted and elicited the enterprize of millions in the business.
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