15/29 431.] [Footnote 2: _Ibid_., vol.iv., p. 23.] [Footnote 3: Smyth, _Works of Benjamin Franklin_, vol.v., p. 431.] [Footnote 4: _Ibid_., vol.x., p. 127; and Wickersham, _History of Education in Pennsylvania_, p. 253.] John Jay kept up his interest in the Negro race.[1] In the Convention of 1787 he cooeperated with Gouverneur Morris, advocating the abolition of the slave trade and the rejection of the Federal ratio. |