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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 112

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110 cheat them and he believed the savage life they enjoyed was more favorable to their happiness than any new order of things which could be introduced by the ecclesiastics. 1 Mr. Wright's last work in the house was a plea for the suppression of the slave trade - "that odious blot on all nations concerned in it." He called attention to the fact that 200 free negroes had been carried into slavery; that 80000 Africans were victimated annually to bondage and that 15000 were smuggled into the southern states every year. Mr. Wright was fond of Latin phrases but was usually kind enough to translate them for his less classical colleagues. He boasts that his constituents never accused him of a bad vote during his service in congress.
 
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