Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Speech of Hon. W. T, Willey: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, on the 25th Day of March, 1864, on the Proposition to Amend the Constitution, Forever Prohibiting Slavery in the United States
Mr. Madison declared in the Federal Convention that he thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be' property in man.' (3 Madison Papers, 1429.
In the debate in Congress on the memorial of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, 1790, drawn up by Benjamin Franklin, ln favor of restoration to liberty of those unhappy men who in tins land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage, Mr. Madison said.
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