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The moral effect, too, of this law against vagrants cannot but be salutary in warning both, blacks and whites against the consequences of idleness, and prompting to honest work. Vagrant Laws, indeed, are the policy of all enlightened nations, and were in Virginia peculiarly opportune, when, in the Streets of her Capitol, where her legislature was in session, the garotter and murderer were perpetuating their felonies in the sunlight.

The capstone of the structure was applied in the following Resulation:

"That involuntary servitude, except for crime is abolished, and ought not to be re-established, and that the negro race among us should be treated with justice, humanity and gave faith, and every means that the wisdom of the legislature can devise should be used to make them useful and intelligent members of a society."

This Resulation endorsing just and kind

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