The Omitted Clause

j In ihe original draft of the Declara . tion of Independence, as drawn up tr . Jefferso.v, was a strong condemnatii i . of the British King for conniving at ani i encouraging the African Slave-Trade i a condemnation that can well be applioi ï to the American Government, which i t now seeking to revive a similar cora . mcrce bet ween .the slave breeding State i of the South and the free soil of Califor . nia, &c. The following is the omittec clause, which was stricken out in com pliance to South Carolina and Georgia For the particulnrs of that traneaciiot see Madison papers, Vol. 1, pp. 233. 11 He," (thnt is, the King of England,, ; "has inoiied trensonable insurrections o our füllow-ciüzens, with the allurement! of forfeiture and confiscation of our prop. erty. He has waged cruel war againsi nrture itself, violating its most sacrec rights of life and liberiy in the persons of a distant people who never ofTondeo him; captivalingand carrying them into slavery in anothcr hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thilher. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the Christian King of Great Briffiin. Deiermined to keep up a market where men should he boughl nnd sold, he has proslituted his negative foi suppressing every legislative altempt to prohibit or restr.iin this execrable commerce; anti that ihis assemblage of horrors mïght want no fact of distinguished dye, he is now exciting these very people to raise in nrms among us, and to purchase that liberty of wliich ho has also obtruded tliem ; thus paying off" former crimes committed againt the liberties of one pefple, with crimes which he urges them to commit against ihc livesof anothcr." Obtuin good seed, prepare yourground well, snwcarly, nnd pay very little altention to themoon. A cargo of 600 tons of stignr !as been received in London from China. The majority for Tempe ranee in Vermont as 8,096.