As it was, the twenty-one years of _laissez-faire_ were confirmed by the
States, and the nation entered upon the constitutional period with the
slave-trade legal in three States,[42] and with a feeling of quiescence
toward it in the rest of the Union.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Conway, _Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph_, ch. ix.
[2] Conway, _Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph_, p. 78.
[3] Elliot, _Debates_, I. 227.
[4] Cf. Conway, _Life and Papers of Edmund Randolph_, pp.
78-9.
[5] For the following debate, Madison's notes (Elliot,
_Debates_, V. 457 ff.) are mainly followed.
[6] Cf. Elliot, _Debates_, V, _passim_.
[7] By Charles Pinckney.
[8] By John Dickinson.
[9] Mentioned in the speech of George Mason.
[10] Charles Pinckney. Baldwin of Georgia said that if the
State were left to herself, "she may probably put a stop to
the evil": Elliot, _Debates_, V. 459.
[11] _Affirmative:_ Connecticut, New Jersey, Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia,--7.
_Negative:_ New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Delaware,--3.
_Absent:_ Massachusetts,--1.
[12] _Negative:_ Connecticut and New Jersey.
[13] Luther Martin's letter, in Elliot, _Debates_, I. 373. Cf.
explanations of delegates in the South Carolina, North
Carolina, and other conventions.
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