Voice Of The Revolutionary Fathers
On th? lStli of Otober, 1784, tlie i eutal Congress adopted a plan of associaiion untaining a variety of articles, among wiiich wo find the füllowing which is commended to the Ktention of our readers, and particularly to those who are disposod to favor the perpetnaüon of Slaveay in United States where t .does not exist, or is not. pertnittéd by t!ie local inw. The article to which wo cllude contains this â reninrkabln laugnage : We will neither import, nor purchase any clave imponed, ufier the first day of' December next: after which time we will wholly .discontinue Ãte Slava Trad, and will neilher bo conoerned (1 it ourselvcs, nor will we faire your vesscsl, nor sell our commodities or ufactures tú liutso concerned in it" The plan of association containing the foreeoiltg article was signed by the memliers of the Congress whose names are ïven below, and may be fonnd in the first volume of' the journals of the Congress. PEYTÃN RANDOPH, Pres't ncw HAMPSHIRE. John Uickinson Tnhn Sullivan. Charles Humphreya Nathariel Folsom. Thomas Mifflin MASSACHIISETTS BAY.Edward Biddle Thomas Cushing. John Morton Samuel Adams. George Ross John Adams. . delaware. liobert Treat Paine. Cfesar Rodney rhode isi.AND. Thomas McKean Stephen Hopkins. George Read ,Samuel Ward. marvland. ..connf.cticut. Mathew Tilghman Eliphalet Dyer. Thomas. Johnson Roger Sheiman. William Paca .Silas Dean. Samuel Chase NEW YORK VIRGINIA. Isaac Low. Georgo Washington John Alsop. Richard Ilenry Leo .John Jay. Patrie Henryjr .James L)uane. Richard Bland William Floyd. Benjamin Harrison Henry Wisner. Edward Pendleton S. Boerum. nortii Carolina. Philip Livingston. William Hooper NEW jersev. Joseph Hughes .James Kensey. R Cuswell William Livingston. soutii CARotIüA. Stephen Crane. Henry Miiidleton Richard Smith. Thomas Lynch John D. Hart. Christopher Gadsen pen.nsylva.ma. John Rutledge Joeph Galloway. Edward Rutledge
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Peyton Randoph