The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 6, July 1902 - April, 1903 Page: 158
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158 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
reopening of the African slave trade, it is simply ridiculous to talk
of doing it in the Union, unless it be ascertained that Congress has
not authority to legislate on the subject." A resolution recom-
mending a thorough canvassing of the constitutional rights of Con-
gress in regard to slavery legislation really was introduced by G.
W. Chilton in the democratic convention held at Houston in May,
1859, but it was overwhelmingly voted down. Nevertheless, the op-
position throughout the campaign charged the democrats with the
intention of reopening the slave trade, and as a result succeeded in
electing their entire ticket with Sam Houston at its head as gov-
ernor. Thus the question rested in Texas, when secession settled it
forever.,
Someof the Africans who were brought in during the period of
the republic are still living-in fact, along the coast from Mata-
gorda to Velasco and along the banks of the Brazos and Colorado
rivers they are not at all uncommon.
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