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Letters to the editor

2005

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\"It were doubtless to be wished, that the power of prohibiting the importation of slaves had not been postponed until the year 1808, or rather that it had been suffered immediate operation. But it is not difficult to account, either for this restriction on the general government, or for the manner in which the whole clause is expressed. It ought to be considered as a great point gained in favor of humanity, that a period of twenty years may terminate forever, within these States, a traffic which has so long and so loudly upbraided the barbarism of modern policy; that within that period, it will receive a considerable discouragement from the federal government, and may be totally abolished, by a concurrence of the few States which continue the unnatural traffic, in the prohibitory example which has been given by so great a majority of the Union. Happy would it be for the unfortunate Africans, if an equal prospect lay before them of being redeemed from the oppressions of their European brethren!\" Mr. [Malcolm Wallop] relies on controversial information supplied by Dr. Brad Rodu, a researcher at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, but he forgot to mention that a big chunk of Dr. Rodu's research was paid for by a $1.25 million grant from U. S. Tobacco. That coupled with a request by the senator for financial support from tobacco companies for his Frontier of Freedom organization in a 1996 letter makes you wonder about his position. I'm with you on one thing, Malcolm. It is time to shed some light on the smokeless tobacco issue, and the message in my little candlelight reads, \"Wyoming issues, and the health and lives of Wyoming's young people should not be dictated by the tobacco industry.\"

• Publisher: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
• Subject: Wallop, Malcolm