"The Means to be adopted in this Emergency appear, to me, most obvious: We ought, in the first Place, to declare, in the most publick Manner that the Act of the Bostonians in destroying the Property of the East India Company was illegal, and ought not to be countenanced. This will evince our Uprightness, and serve as an Admonition to that headstrong People never to go to the same Excess again."

--Quoted from "Plea for Moderation, 1774," Schreeven, Revolutionary Virginia, 1:213

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John Randolph is from a very powerful Virginia family. His brother Peyton is Speaker of the House of Burgesses and John is the King's Attorney General for the Colony of Virginia.

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