their masters.

FOOTNOTES:

[450] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. i. p. 243.

[451] Bancroft, vol. i. 5th ed. p. 175.

[452] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iii. pp. 492, 493.

[453] There is no law making the manufacturing of whiskey legal in the
United States; and yet the United-States government makes laws to
regulate the business, and collects a revenue from it. It exists by
and with the consent of the government, and, in a sense, is legal.

[454] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv. p. 34.

[455] I have searched diligently for the Act of February, among the
Rhode-Island Collections and Records, but have not found it. It was
evidently more comprehensive than the above Act.

[456] R.I. Col. Recs., vol iv. p. 50.

[457] R.I. Col. Recs, vol. iv. pp. 53, 54.

[458] R.I. Coll. Recs., vol. iv. pp. 54, 55.

[459] R.I. Col. Recs., vol iv. p. 59.

[460] J. Carter Brown's Manuscripts, vol. viii. Nos. 506, 512.

[461] It was a specious sort of reasoning. I learn that the bank over
on the corner is to be robbed to-night at twelve o'clock. Shall I go
and rob it at ten o'clock; because, if I do not do so, another person
will, two hours later?

[462] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv. pp. 133-135.

[463] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv. pp. 191-193.

[464] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv p. 225.

[465] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv. pp. 423, 424.

[466] Ibid., p. 330.

[467] Ibid., vol. iv. p. 209.

[468] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. iv. p. 454.

[469] Ibid., vol. iv. p. 471.

[470] Ibid., vol. iv. pp. 415, 416.

[471] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. v. pp. 72, 73.

[472] R.I. Col. Recs., vol vi. pp. 64, 65.

[473] R.I. Col. Recs., vol. vii. pp. 251, 252.

[474] American Annals, vol ii. pp. 107,155, 156, 184, and 265.

CHAPTER XX.

THE COLONY OF NEW JERSEY.

1664-1775.

NEW JERSEY PASSES INTO THE HANDS OF THE ENGLISH.--POLITICAL
POWERS CONVEYED TO BERKELEY AND CARTERET.--LEGISLATION ON
THE SUBJECT OF SLAVERY DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.--THE
COLONY DIVIDED INTO EAST AND WEST JERSEY--SEPARATE
GOVERNMENTS.--AN ACT CONCERNING SLAVERY BY THE LEGISLATURE
OF EAST JERSEY.--GENERAL APPREHENSION RESPECTING THE RISING
OF NEGRO AND INDIAN SLAVES.--EAST AND WEST JERSEY SURRENDER
THEIR RIGHTS OF GOVERNMENT TO THE QUEEN.--AN ACT FOR
REGULATING THE CONDUCT OF SLAVES.--IMPOST-TAX OF TEN POUNDS
LEVIED UPON EACH NEGRO IMPORTED INTO THE COLONY.--THE
GENERAL COURT PASSES A LAW RECREATING THE TRIAL OF
SLAVES.--NEGR