Virginia Argus. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1796-1816, 1806-01-17

&c il further enacted, that instead of
The tax hitherto imposed on law process
~ the county courts, there SHAH be paid
the following, To wit:--On every capiss,
summons, or subpoena institutng sne
IN court OF quarter session, one dollar
on every declaration in ei:9m Snt, on.
dollar; on dockettng every suit by mott
on, one dollar; on docke,tins every at
tachinen. against an abscending debtor,
one dollar; on every appearance fSr =
defendant i'm any of the said suits, one
dollar; which taxes shall be collected and
paid into The treasury as heretofore, and
shall be recovered by the prevailing par
ty.s
This a6 shall commence and be in
force from and after the first day OF June
next. .a
Number of suits in the county
courts, sc. now taxed, $4,000
Plan proposes TO tax attachments
and motions, say, 5000
Four-fiths oil these suits will be
defended, 10000
Produce ofthe new plan, s $4,000
Expense OF the new plan, $4,000
Nett produce to the treasury, 10000
Present produce to the, treasury,
say, 1000
Balance in favor OF the new plan, 8 5000
HovsE OF DELEcA4Ss, 5ISU/Rr Is, 1905.
TIE bWfe hrevenf me emancipation Of Slcves. :
under consideration, IN COMMITTEE Of the
whole.
Mr.. Low offered substitute for the
bill, which substitute went to prevent
emancipation oy tW, and TO prevents
emansipstions to- take effect al . distant
day. He said he conceived the right 10
| emancipate ought no, To be taken away /:
But that the emancipators ought them
selves, to feel the consequences, and be
responslbefor them, and not leave them
TO their posierty.
MIR ROBERTSON observed, that tho
gentleman (Mr. Love) had commended
that the citizens should not be deprived
OF the right OF emancipation, and yet his
substitute vent to deprive them of that
right. IT they ought not TO be deprived
OF the rover Of emancIpating by Deed,
neither ought they 10 be deprived of tho
! power OF emancipating by HW. The
QUESTION (said MIR. R.) is, shall emanci.
patton b. tosra ted or not ? He concei-
we'd the question ought to be decided
| wihuCt argument, as investigation might
,-haye tendency to produce those very
evils we would avoid. He would, how
lever, state some facts for the considera-
nj h.
rance of the blacks in numbers, over tho
whites, in the eastern parts Of the state,
Is, perhaps, grea,er than gentlemen have
rsppi ehended. The number OF the blacks
is above $40 600; OF the whites, above
$50 600; thus there may be Of each, a.
bout 10000 above l6 years Of age. In
order to ascertain the force OF each, de-
| duct from the number ot the whites the
females, who would be a weight on them
destructive to their energy IN .acoBtes, {;
but the females Of the blacks wosld be
rs ferocious and formidable as the NAL S.
| Thus the force Of the blacks rs TO lha
whites as to !. This proves the pecu-
liar necessity Of measures OF iprecau.ion
in|Vi ginia.
| flaws to prohibit emancipation are
mot found in other, states; but their sto-
alioD is dissirnilsr. The number Of their
whites prePonderates greatly. In ylrgi-
MA is not go; and law to prevent e.
Emancipation was necessary. For if tho,
blacks see an of their color slaves, il will,
seem TO them disposition of Providence.
ait ithey will be content. BIT tfthey see
Others like themselves free, and en- io.i ing
rights, they ara deprived oil, they viii re-
| pine.
! Those blacks who are free, obtain some,
education they obtain knowledge Of
facts, by passing gom pia,- TO place in soci.
ely; they can thus organize insurrection.
They will, no doubt, unite with the slaves.
Tell us pot of principles. Those prine-
! pies have been aDnihliated by the exist
ence OF slavery among Us. Mr.. II. ho-
ped the su Jstitule would not prevail. t.
Mr. LovS asid the part OF the Commits
nifty from which he came was not much J,
interested. That slaves there did not
bear the proport on oil one to ten of tho r
number 10 some other parts. lie had no
doubt that evils did exist arising from
emancipation in other parts OF the state
81 he would relieve go far as Drincinis would