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8798. VETO, Inhuman.—

He [George
III.] has endeavored to pervert the exercise
of the kingly office in Virginia into a detestable
and insupportable tyranny * * * by
prompting our negroes to rise in arms among
us; those very negroes whom, by an inhuman
use of his negative, he had refused us permission
to exclude by law.—
Proposed Va. Constitution. Ford ed., ii, 11.
(June. 1776)