The Speech of Charles Jas: Faulkner, (Of Berkeley) in the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State With Respect to Her Slave Population, Delivered January 20, 1832 (Classic Reprint)
(January H, 1832. Mr. Goodk of Mecklenburg, rose to move t...)
January H, 1832. Mr. Goodk of Mecklenburg, rose to move the following resolution. Resolred, That the select committee rais don the subject of slaves, free ncgi oes, and tlie melancholy occurrences growing out of the tragical massacre in Southampton,i edischarged i Voni the consideration of all petitions, memorials and resolutions, which have for their object, the manumission of persons held in servitude under the existing laws of this commoii weaith, 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, tlie propriety of providing by law, that the children of ail female slaves, Mho may be born in this state, on or after the 4th day of July, 1840, shall become thq propei-ty of the commonwealth, the males at the age of twenty-one years, and females at the age of eighteen, if detained by theuowners within the limits of Virginia, until they shall respectively arrive at the ages aforesaid, to be hired out uniil the nett sum arising therefrom, shall be sufficient 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. FRIDAY, January 20, 1832. The resolution moved by Mr. Goode, and the substitute thei-efor proposed by Mr. Randolph, on the subject of the colored j Dopulation of the commonwealth, being under consideration, Mr. Faulkner remarked, that, having submitted to the consideration of tlie select committee, the only resolution before that body, recommending a scheme for the gradual extinction of slavery in the commonwealth which resolution, although not formally before the house, had attracted much unkind, and he
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