An Appeal to the People of Illinois On the Question of a Convention

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Thus it was with the colonies on their emancipation froni Oreat Britain. Anlong the institutions of their society there existed a system of wrong, which, for some, or all of the causes above assigned, was not redressed. That system ivas slavery. It was not actually tolerated by the constitution, ©r meant to be, as no exception in its favour appears. Th« ©vii was suffered to exist, because it could not be destroyed.
Under the sacred transcript of universal rights oh which the people of the Unite
...d States founded their constituion, if U had Bot pre-eJU9t«d iu the gooimuaii^; it could not have beeo.
iatT«duced; they ctuld not have created slavery; nor cao the people of Illinois create it for the aame reason.
It is, moreover, expressly prohibited in this state, not only by our own compact above alluded to, but by the ordi- nance of Cougress providing against its introduction into the North Western Territory or the statei formed therefromj which ordinance is the supreme law of the land, according to article 6 of the constitution of th« United btatet which is as follows: ^^This constitiitian and the laws of the United Stateg tthich shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made or vphich shall be made under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby y any thing in the constitution m^ laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.


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