Extract from Thomas Jefferson’s Sixth Annual Message to Congress
| Dec. 2. 06. |
I congratulate you, fellow citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United states from all further participation in those violations of human rights, which have been so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa, & which the morality, the reputation, & the best interests of our country have long been eager to proscribe.
PrC (DLC); dateline at foot of text.
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