One hundred fourteen Wilmington residents assert that an 1830 act imposing a quarantine on ships carrying free persons of color is "more injurious to the commercial and mercantile interests of our Town, than the polluting intercourse of the blacks possibly could be to its political safety." They also argue that a tax on goods not grown or manufactured in the state of North Carolina is "oppressive in its nature and partial in its operation." Petitioners further seek protection from peddlers "whose manners, habits and political notions are essentially different from ours," whereby "a thought has rolled across our minds whether the seeds of discord which has manifested itself throughout our state by feeble attempts at insurrection, may not have been partially disseminated by them."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
