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7960. SLAVES, Importation of.—[continued].

I congratulate you on
the law of your State [South Carolina] for suspending
the importation of slaves, and for the
glory you have justly acquired by endeavoring
to prevent it forever.—
To E. Rutledge. Washington ed. ii, 180. Ford ed., iv, 410.
(P. 1787)