1812 Rare Slave Representation "Awake! O Spirit of the North" Document

Description

Original and important anti-slavery document dated 1812. 24 pages. Titled "Slave Representation, by Boreas, Awake! O Spirit of the North. Produced during the term of President James Madison. The author argues that due to prior actions, the South is grossly overrepresented in Congress. "This evil has constantly been growing greater and greater, since the adoption of the Consitution; and it will, hereafter become absolutely intolerable". Further, at is an early and angry protest against the three fiths clause - "the rotten part of the Constitution - which counts slaves as 3/5 of a person" and the "apparently magnanimous land cessions by southern States like Virginia are designed to enhance the power of "the Slave Country" be creating new slave States out of them. "In one of the Slave states (South Carolina) a short time since, (and we believe at present,) the man who stole a horse was hanged; while the man who killed a Negro, was fined 100 pounds!" The document is attribued to George Cabot, although not stated as such in the document. Cabot was a Massachusetts Federalist and a leader of the so-called 'Essex Junto'.
Condition: Very good, with modern wrapper apparently added later. Some spotting
Size: 5.25" x 8.5"
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