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70 The Senate and House Of Representatives
of the State of Deiazpare, in General As
sembLv met, the memorial Q fthe uadersign-


ed Ciiirens offhe Statr Of Delaware, res
hecJuHy rehresents--


That aeeplv impressed with conviction
that ltw providing for the gradual abolition
of 81 very, would greatly promote the well
fare of the St ,te, we are induced to request
your attention to the consideration OF this
most important and interesting subject; and
to submit few of those reasons for the en-
actment of such law, which appear the
most urgent, and peculiar to our situation ant
condition as State. 1t rs fact universal
ly known and conceded that wherever slave
nv exists, it relaxes the industry and efforts
Of tine white population; and the kinds o
labor that can be performed by the slave!
becomes disreputable. Hrnce the produc
tive labor of the white population of Deia
ware has been far less than tnat Of the sam,
number of inhabitants in any one of the fire,
States,-and hence those States have increas
ed far more r&4i 4illy than our own in populs
tion, wealth and power.


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