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Where was the impracticability, on which alone so many had rested their objections. Must we not blush at pretending, that it would distress our consciences to accede to this measure, as far as the question of the Negro population was concerned. Intolerable were the mischiefs of this trade, both in its origin, and are we all we are now every stage of its progress. To say that slaves could be furnished us by fair and commercial means was ridiculous. The trade sometimes ceased, as during the late war. The demand was more or less according to circumstances.