...his own invention. Mr. Jefferson gives a different reason for striking out the passages. He says :— The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...with, still haunted the minds of many. For this reason the passages which conveyed censure on the people of England were struck out. Here is nothing about...

...which led to the two most important ones, Mr. Jefferson gives the following account in his Memoir : " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...England were struck out, lest they should give them offence.1 The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa, was struck out in complaisance...

...Declaration of Independence, and which, as Jefferson himself testifies, were struck out by the Congress "in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who...attempted to restrain the importation of slaves."* At the date of the Declaration of Independence, or within ten years afterwards, the importation of...

...Jefferson made it matter of coinplaint against Congress for amending his draft of that paper, that " the pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many," and that " for this reason those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England- were struck...

...reported, and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday referred to a committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...censures on the people of England were struck out, lest thev should give them offence. The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants of Africa,...

...express the sentiments of a large majority of its members, but, as Jefferson himself said, because "the pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many."* And what we have thus endeavored to show was true of Virginia, was measurably true of all the other...

...express the sentiments of a large majority of its members, but, as Jefferson himself said, because "the pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of many."* And what we have thus endeavored to show was true of Virginia, was measurably true of all the other...

...reported, and laid on the table the Friday preceding, and on Monday r yferred to a committee of the whole. The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...with still haunted the minds of many. For this reason passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck out, lest they should give them...

...continued importation of slaves from the coast of Africa; his words on this point being as follows: "The clause, too, reprobating the enslaving the inhabitants...in complaisance to South Carolina and Georgia, who never attempted to restrain the importation of slaves, and who, on the contrary, still wished to continue...

...which led to the two most important ones, Mr. Jefferson gives the following account m his Memoir : " The pusillanimous idea that we had friends in England...worth keeping terms with, still haunted the minds of muuy. For this reason, those passages which conveyed censures on the people of England were struck...