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In the years 1782-3 the final act in emancipating the local slaves was taken, in the investigation by a committee of the Meeting into the condition of the freed slaves, and the obligations of their old masters to them.
The great settlement of 1782-3 was in the main worked by men who were radically adverse to its spirit and intention. But they were omnipotent in their control of the unreformed. Parliament of Ireland, more and more drenched, under their unceasing and pestilent activity, with fresh doses of corruption.
The Americans declined to grant the terms, and the United States was finally left in possession of the Northwest. Hist. Hist. Consult N.Y. Col. Hist. Pur Trade MSS., in possession of Wis. Hist. Soc.; also Wis. Hist. Hist. Soc. on the Treaty Negotiations of 1782-3, appendix; map in Narr. and Crit. Hist.
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