Virginia Reader: a Treasury of Writings from the First Voyages to the PresentFrancis Coleman Rosenberger Excerpt from Virginia Reader: A Treasury of Writings, From the First Voyages to the Present Richard henry lee (1782-1794) address TO the virginia house OF burgesses On the motion to lay so heavy a duty on the importation of slaves as effectually to put an end to that iniquitous and dis graceful traffic within the colony of Virginia. 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. |
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... never could find any ground for the accusation , and believe it only to be an unjust scandal upon them . This I know , that if ever they have a Child while they are single , it is such a disgrace to them , that they never after gét ...
... never penetrated , partly , no doubt , because of the training of my earlier years , and partly because the marsh on either side of the hammock would have mired a cat . Often , as I watched with envious eyes the wild duck rise up over ...
... never given much consider- ation to these requests , for the reason that I have never thought that I had done enough in the world to warrant anything in the way of an autobiography ; and I hope that my life work , by reason of my ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
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