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nd New England's refusal (for the sake of union) to relinquish, until twenty years had passed, this nefarious traffic, which denotes sacrifice for union, for freedom, and union for the sake of freedom? We demand, said New England, our rights to fasten upon you the fangs of this nefarious traffic for twenty years to come. If New England can forgive herself for this, what should she not forgive? She did forgive herself without a groan. It was not slavery, it was the slave trade, which John Wesley called the sum of all villainies. This was what New England made the condition precedent to Union. The capital invested in the lucrative exchange of rum for negroes could not (or would not) sooner adjust itself to the impractical views of Madison and Mason. The constitutional power of amendment was inhibited from touching this provision. By profits thus derived, the sons of New England, their legatees and distributees, have been enriched. Which of them has flung upon the ground the t