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Thank you X for that eloquent and wise commentary on Jefferson.

Since you are arriving late to the discussion, let me bring you up to date. We were discussing Hamilton's opinion and his ideas on banking. The issue of Jefferson was a misdirection executed by Sherman Logan when he used a personal insult of Jefferson to redirect the conversation away from Hamilton's monarchical ideas. I think he used the word parasite.

Nothing like a good ad hominem to stir up the pot, as I know you can appreciate.

So, your contentions have been already answered, and if you will look backward, you will see where you were wrong.

With regard to Jefferson's slavery clause, if you remember there were four others on the writing group, and many said a “sub group” consisted of Adams and one other. The clause removal has alternately been attributed to either the convention as a whole or those two. Most seem to think it was Adams.

93 posted on 05/30/2012 11:19:50 AM PDT by PeaRidge
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With regard to Jefferson's slavery clause, if you remember there were four others on the writing group, and many said a “sub group” consisted of Adams and one other. The clause removal has alternately been attributed to either the convention as a whole or those two. Most seem to think it was Adams.

From what I've been able to find out, the "anti-slavery clause" wasn't deleted by the drafting committee but later, after the Declaration had been presented by the committee to the Congress as a whole. Jefferson blamed the South Carolina and Georgia delegations and some of the "Northern brethren" who benefited from the slave trade.

One source (R.B. Bernstein) says that Adams fought the deletions, and the timid Jefferson didn't really express his reaction to the deletions. Another (Gary B. Nash) says that Adams particularly approved of the language in the anti-slavery clause. I don't find anyone saying that Adams killed or tried to kill the passage either in the committee or in the Congress.

99 posted on 05/30/2012 5:16:49 PM PDT by x
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