Gouverneur Morris on the subject of Including Slaves in the Population Census

The inhabitant of Georgia and South Carolina who goes to the coast of Africa and in defiance of most sacred laws of humanity, tears away his fellow creatures from their dearest connections and damns them to the most cruel bondage, shall have more votes in a government instituted for protection of the rights of mankind than the citizen of Pennsylvania or New Jersey who views with a laudable horror so nefarious a practice.