An Argument Before the Committee of the House of Representatives Upon the Petition of Benedict Fenwick and Others: With a Portion of the Documentary Testimony (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Argument Before the Committee of the House of Representatives Upon the Petition of Benedict Fenwick and Others: With a Portion of the Documentary Testimony

Whether this was a vigorous step or not, is for you to judge, it was the only one taken, and deserves to be recorded in his favor. The systematic manner, in which the petitioners were driven from their beds to the fields, the successive' acts of the tragica] drama which presented themselves, by distinct and varied atrocities, it is not my intention to dwell upon, they have already been stated to you, and if they had not been, they have become a matter of history, and familiar to the minds of every one.

I have stated to you who these petitioners are, their prayer to you is for redress of the wrongs and injuries complained of in their petition. Their story is briefly told therein, and their hopes of favor from this Commonwealth set forth with the reasons on which they are founded. They declare them selves to be good citizens of the Commonwealth, obedient to the laws, and paying all taxes and duties levied upon them by the government; they state that in the destruction of their property, by a mob, in the open and direct violation of the law, they have been rendered destitute they declare the du ty of the government to be to protect them, and to provide a remedy for their wrongs, that it has failed to do so, and that therefore it ought to indemnify them for the losses they have suffered as a matter of justice, they demand it, as a matter of justice, or of favor, you will indemnify them, if the views, I now am about to present to you, be correct.

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