...Jefferson. "I congratulate you, fellow-citizens," he said in his annual message of December 2, 1806, "on the approach of the period at which you may interpose your authority con-* stitutionally to withdraw the citizans of the United States fron all further participation in...

...took up the question in his annual message, urging Congress to interpose its authority to withdraw citizens of the United States from all further participation in those violations of human rights which had Jefferson on been "so long continued on the unoffending abolition. inhabitants of Africa. ' ' 7...

...in 1806-7 President Jefferson said in part: "I congrtaulate you fellow citizens on the approach of a period at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally...from all further participation in those violations of the human rights which have so long been continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa which the...

...though the law could not take effect until 1808. His message ran : "I congratulate you, fellow citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose...withdraw the citizens of the United States from all participation in the violation of human rights which has been so long continued on the unoffending...

...appiopriatioii!, will be requisite. " I congratulate you, fellow citizens, on the approach of the |wriuil at which you may interpose your authority constitutionally, to withdraw the citizens of the United Slates from all further participation in those violations of liuman right« which have been so long...

...expression in Jefferson's Sixth Annual Message (Dec. 2, 1806): I congratulate you, fellow citizens, on the approach of the period at which you may interpose...best interests of our country have long been eager to proscribe.50 But governmental endeavors to substantiate the image of a morally unified world democracy...

...slaves be outlawed by the earliest possible date permitted in the Constitution ( 1 808), for these "violations of human rights which have been so long...and which the morality, the reputation, and the best interest of our country, have long been eager to proscribe" (p. 528). However, Miller notes that because...

...to Congress on December 2, 1808, when he spoke of the impending end of the slave trade as preventing "those violations of human rights which have been...so long continued on the unoffending inhabitants of Africa."15 He worked hard to see the passage of a strong act to implement the proscription put into...

...message to Congress in December 1806, Jefferson recommended legislation to abolish the African trade "to withdraw the citizens of the United States from...best interests of our country have long been eager to proscribe."97 Congress soon passed a law ending the trade on January 1, 1808. Historians have rightly...

...to his credit, recommended action as soon as Congress obtained the constitutional authority in order to "withdraw the citizens of the United States from...of our country have long been eager to proscribe." Congress quickly passed a law prohibiting the further import of slaves from Africa as of January 1,...