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Theses: how were the African Americans treated differently than white Americans?in order to enable them to display their patriotic zeal and unwavering loyalty in the most effective manner in this trail-hour of the republic and to relieve them from an odious prescription which had so long and so unjustly ben directed against them and all others computationally identified with them by an illegal act for congress; they earnestly desire your honorable body to cause to be stricken forthwith from the militia law of the state the odious word "white buy which they are now precluded from being enrolled in the militia and thus disabled as citizens from defending the commonwealth against its enemies your aggrieved petitioners further respectfully submit that no law of congress however long submitted to which is clearly unconstitutional or of questionable legality ought to be permitted to control the legislative action of your honorable body

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