The Question Before Congress

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Excerpt from The Question Before Congress: A Consideration of the Debates and Final Action by Congress Upon Various Phases of the Race Question in the United StatesThe reaction from the struggle for independence and the manly part the Negroes had taken in the war as soldiers and fellow-workers with the other patriots, naturally attracted attention to their social and political status. All the leading men of the nation were, at that time or soon before anti slavery men and slave holding was never so unpopular 1n this country. Jefferson's opposition to slavery was well-known.3 He both wrote and spoke against it and no man of his time did so much as he did to check its progress. Madison and Henry also opposed the institution.' But this opposition did not go so far as to demand immediate and unconditional emancipation, for the system had already taken too strong a. Hold under the fostering in¿uence of England to permit men like the above to anticipate Garrison.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.