Emancipated by the will of Mary Cox, deceased, Arthur asks to remain in the state. For more than sixty years he has "endeavoured to perform his duty to his owner." Now he wants to spend the remainder of his life "in the company of those, with whom he has lived and loved together." He notes that "the love of country, home, wife, children and friends is not contracted within the narrow limits of a particular class." "The black man," he adds, "who has been properly reared by a kind owner, feels an attachment for all these as strong as can his master." "What is liberty to the white man if he, to enjoy it, is to be banished" from his home, wife, children, friends, neighbors, "driven into exile far from all he knows and loves"?
Result: Refereed to committee for courts of justice.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
