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Yourcommittee would not thus favorably regard the prayer of the memorialists, if it sought to impair, in the slightest degree, the rights ofprivate property, or the yet more sacred rights of personal liberty, securedto every description of freemen in the United States. The resolution ofthe legislature of Virginia, the subsequent acts and declarations, as well as the high character of the memorial-
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