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In- stead, therefore, of being constrained by the sentiment of other nations to assume this position, it was in advance of that senti- ment, and tended to create it. We were not here the slow imita- tors of others, but rather the noble exemplar, that they have tardily followed. And, that this act might be still more effectual in the destruction of the foreign slave-trade, it was, on the 10th of May, 1800, supple- mented by another; which declared " that no citizen or resident of the United Stat...es should own, or have any right of property in any ship or vessel engaged in the slave-trade anywhere upon the sea, no matter from what place or port it might sail. " This act was also enforced by new and more severe penalties. " It prohibited any sailor from serving on board of a slaver, and authorized our commissioned vessels to seize any ship engaged in this trade, and bring her into port for condemnation. " Xor was it ihQ foreign slave-trade alone that our national Con- gress in its earlier sessions sought to destroy.
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