Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Dividing Line Between Federal and Local Authority: Popular Sovereignty in the Territories
The following extract from a petition to the Throne, presented from the House of Burgesses of Virginia, April lst, 1772, will show the sense of the people of Virginia. On the subject of slavery at that period.
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