Jason Robards Sr.: Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania

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• Digby of South Carolina : South Carolina will insist that in determining population as a basis for representation, that the blacks be counted equally with the whites.

  Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania : Mr. President! Mr. President.

  George Washington : Mr. Gouverneur Morris.

  Gouverneur Morris of Pennsylvania : If such a motion is passed, the slave ships will be dumping hundreds of thousands of blacks on our shores each year - to give the Southern states an overwhelming balance of power in the legislature. I can never agree to give such encouragement to the slave trade.