" Mr. Page, of Virginia, (afterward Governor)"Was in favor of the commitment; he hoped that the designs of the respectable memorialists would not be stopped at the threshold, in order to preclude a fair discussion of the prayer of the memorial.

They would have the Commemoration of their Actions be transmitted by the purest and most untainted Memorialists.

"That the subject here presented may receive your Lordship's favorable and Christian consideration is the sincere and earnest desire of your Lordships' most respectful memorialists.