. Popular history of the civil war . SAILING FROM The Reason Why. 5 Still, men who had fought so many hard battles to securefreedom to themselves were not quite comfortable at thethought of enslaving others. In the convention which pre-pared the Constitution for the new nation, much dissatisfac-tion was manifested with such a state of things; and, hadnot South Carolina and Georgia resisted so firmly, there islittle doubt that the slave-trade would have been forbiddenat that time. This would have been an easy matter then;but it was put off for twenty years, to save trouble, whe
. Popular history of the civil war . SAILING FROM The Reason Why. 5 Still, men who had fought so many hard battles to securefreedom to themselves were not quite comfortable at thethought of enslaving others. In the convention which pre-pared the Constitution for the new nation, much dissatisfac-tion was manifested with such a state of things; and, hadnot South Carolina and Georgia resisted so firmly, there islittle doubt that the slave-trade would have been forbiddenat that time. This would have been an easy matter then;but it was put off for twenty years, to save trouble, when,alas ! it was too late. Nobody pretended then that slavery was not wrong, butit was very profitable. Years after, John C. Calhoun, a South-Carolinian, dared to stand up in Congress, and defend it,upon the ground that the slave himself was benefited. TheSouth believed this doctrine already, and did not need tobe persuaded. So you can easily see that the custom ofslavery was an inheritance ; that is, handed down from fatherto son, for many, many years. In
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