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.

[14] Elliot, _Debates_, V. 471.

[15] Saturday, Aug. 25, 1787.

[16] Elliot, _Debates_, V. 477.

[17] Elliot, _Debates_, V. 477. Dickinson made a similar
motion, which was disagreed to: _Ibid._

[18] _Ibid._, V. 478.

[19] _Ibid._

[20] Aug. 29: _Ibid._, V. 489.

[21] _Ibid._, V. 492.

[22] Elliot, _Debates_, V. 532.

[23] _Ibid._, I. 317.

[24] P.L. Ford, _Pamphlets on the Constitution_, p. 331.

[25] _Ibid._, p. 367.

[26] McMaster and Stone, _Pennsylvania and the Federal
Convention_, pp. 599-600. Cf. also p. 773.

[27] See Ford, _Pamphlets_, etc., p. 54.

[28] Ford, _Pamphlets_, etc., p. 146.

[29] "Address to the Freemen of South Carolina on the Subject
of the Federal Constitution": _Ibid._, p. 378.

[30] Published in the _New York Packet_, Jan. 22, 1788;
reprinted in Dawson's _Foederalist_, I. 290-1.

[31] Elliot, _Debates_, II. 452.

[32] Elliot, _Debates_, IV. 296-7.

[33] Published in _Debates of the Massachusetts Convention_,
1788, p. 217 ff.

[34] Elliot, _Debates_, IV. 100-1.

[35] Published in _Debates of the Massachusetts Convention_,