["The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal Laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of Maratime [sic] and commercial enterprise and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The South in the same Intercourse, benefitting by the Agency of the North, sees its agriculture grow and its commerce expand."] George Washington

[..."The American constitution was framed by slaveholders for a slavcholding republic. But the accidents of soil and climate, making slave labour comparatively useless north of a certain latitude, and apparently convenient south of it, joined with the ever widening difference of character in the two populations to clear of slavery the states of the North and concentrate it in the South."...] Charles Dickens

Interesting. Both were seeing something that made sense. Years apart though.

Pam