The Speech of William H. Brodnax, (of Dinwiddie) In the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State With Respect to Its Colored Population
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Excerpt from The Speech of William H. Brodnax, (of Dinwiddie) In the House of Delegates of Virginia, on the Policy of the State With Respect to Its Colored Population: Delivered January 19, 1832 Wednesday, January 11, 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 subject, the manumission of persons 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 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." Thursday, January 19, 1832. On motion of Mr. Brodnax of Dinwiddie, the resolution moved by Mr. Goode, and the substitute therefor proposed by Mr. Randolph, on the subject of the colored population of the commonwealth, were taken up; when Mr. Brodnax rose and addressed the house. He commenced by remarking that the peculiar position which he occupied, in relation to the important subject which had engaged their consideration for some days past, rendered an explanation of the course he had pursued, and of his views and opinions, necessary. This position, said he, as is known to the house, has in a great degree, arisen out of circumstances over which I could not, with delicacy or propriety, have exerted any efficient control: and some explanation becomes the more necessary, from the numerous successive phases which the subject has assumed at different periods of its discussion. Without the slightest change having taken place in any principle, or opinion, which I originally entertained, the question itself is now presented in an attitude and manner so altered by supervenient occurrences, as to render it proper for me to pursue the object, which I have from the first kept steadily in view, by the adoption of a course entirely different, from that which, under other circumstances, I had prescribed to myself. My opinions, as an humble individual member of this house, however unimportant to the community at large, are important to myself, and to those generous constituents who have confided to me the high trust of representing their interests in this most important session of the legislature which has occured since the foundation of our government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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