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1789.

my brothers ATLER and RUSH, upon this principle, that it was in the power of Samuel Moore to have fecured the fervice of the Negroes in queftion ; and, having omitted to do fo, he cannot, on the one hand, take advantage of his own negligence ; nor, on the other, will an ignorance of the law execufe him. The tenth fection of the Acts of Affembly feems, indeed, in accurate and infenfible; but, as upon a claufe of fo obfcure a kind, I would not wifh to prefs an argument againft liberty, I muft declare my voice to be in faver of difcharge of the Negroes.