 | The Speech of John A. Chandler, (of
Norfolk County,) in the House of Delegates of
Virginia, on the Policy of the State with
respect to Her Slave Population. |  |
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1 1, 1832.
MR. GOODE of Mecklenburg,.rose to move the following resolution. Resolved, That the select committee raised on the subject of slaves, free negroes, and the melancholy occurrences growing out of the tragical massacre in Southampton, be discharged from the consideration of all petitions, memorials and resolutions, which have for their object, the manumission of persons held in servitude held in servitude under the existing laws of this commonwealth, and that it is not expedient to legislate on the subject.
MR. RANDOLPH moved the following substitute, to be inserted after the word "Southampton:"
—"be instructed to inquire into the expediency of submitting to the vote of the qualified voters in the several towns, cities, boroughs, and counties of this commonwealth, the propriety of providing by law, that the children of all female slaves, who may be born in this state, on or after the 4th day of July, 1840, shall become the property of the commonwealth, the males at the age of twenty-one years, and females at the age of eighteen, if detained by their owners within the limits of Virginia, until they shall respectively arrive at the ages aforesaid, to be hired out until the nett sumarising therefrom, shall be deficient to defray the expense of their removal, beyond the limits of the United States, and that said committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise."
| The Speech of John A. Chandler, (of
Norfolk County,) in the House of Delegates of
Virginia, on the Policy of the State with
respect to Her Slave Population. | |