Chapter VIII: Part 8

No elaborate or extended thesis or dissertation on the too apparent merits, virtue, value and importance of these measures, in this brief sketch, is attempted. The purpose really being, with emphasis, to declare without successful contradiction or any possible doubt or dispute _that in the Rising Sun Tavern at Fredericksburg on January 13, 1777_, these all pervading, all important laws of the greatest import were formulated and inaugurated by the Committee referred to.

End of Project Gutenberg's Historic Fredericksburg, by John T. Goolrick