If Congress should think that proceedings in such cases lack the authority of law, or ought to be further regulated by it, I recommend that provision be made for effectually preventing foreign slave traders from acquiring domicile and facilities for their criminal occupation in our country.
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of which all who shall at that time be entitled to act as members of that body are hereby required to take notice
And this result, so far from being bad faith to Vermont, is indispensable to keeping good faith with New Hampshire.
But there is a task yet before us---to go forward and consummate by the votes of the States that which Congress so nobly began yesterday.
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