"Merchants and Planters of Charleston" petition the President and members of the Senate of the United States to revise, amend, or modify the Act of Congress entitled "an act to prohibit the importation of Slaves into any part or place within the jurisdiction of the United States after the 1st January 1808." Fearful that "their said Vessels and Cargoes might arrive subsequent to the 1st day of January," the memorialists beg relief from their "distressful and unfortunate predicament," and they pray that they not be "Subject ... to the penalties of the act aforesaid."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
