The Speech of Thomas J Randolph of Albemarle in the House of Delegates of V
The Speech of Thomas J Randolph of Albemarle in the House of Delegates of V
Thomas Jefferson Randolph
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I felt too indignant under what I conceived the contumely of the gentleman from Dinwiddle, to attempt to correct him a second time, until I should come to it in the regular course of this debate. I have alluded to it now, not from any unkind feelings to- wards that gentleman, but from a sense of what was due to myself. I feared, from the apologetic strain of his prefatory remarks, that he would depart from the tract of just argument. He reminded me of a certain Trozes Echelle, executioner, I th...ink, sir, to Lewis XI. Who always addressed his victims in the kindest and most endearing terms, while he was adjusting upon them the noose which was to launch them into eternity. I would abandon my owii views, and become a prose- lyte to the gentleman's plan, or any other feasible plan to effect this grand object, could my understanding become convinced of its practi- cability. He levies a tax on the people, of $200, 000 per annum ; he proposes to export with this sum, annually, 6, 000, being the annual increase of slaves and free negroes.
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