A Plain Planter begs leave to ask his Fellow Citizens a Few Questions.

• imprint_number: 1790.039
• title: A plain planter begs leave to ask his fellow citizens a few questions. Did you authorize your representatives in Congress . . . to violate any part of the Constitution? . . .
• sequence_number: 39
• year: 1790
• place_issued: Richmond
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: A Plain Planter.
• notes: Content indicates that the author was concerned with three Quaker-instigated memorials submitted to the second session of the 1st Congress (January 4, 1790 to August 12, 1790) and referred to committee therein; as title citation notes, that author thought such referrals were a violation of the constitutional protections accorded to slave owners in the country.
  Sheet lacks colophon; only known copy is held in the state archives of the Library of Virginia, indicating a connection to the government of the Commonwealth, and so to the Richmond presses employed by that government; however, a specific press there cannot be identified.
  
  
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