Excerpt from Report of the Minority of the Committee on Military Affairs, on the Petition of the Legal Representaives of Antonio Pacheco, Praying Compensation for a Slave, 1848 And the clause was so amended to exclude in express terms the idea that there could be property in man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.