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" Smith (December 27, 1847) praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia. "
Daniel Webster - Page 275
by John Bach McMaster - 1902 - 343 pages
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Journal: 1st-13th Congress . Repr. 14th Congress, 1st Session ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - United States - 1844 - 702 pages
...Claims. By Mr. Giddings: A petition of inhabitants of Erie county, in the State of New York, praying the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia: which was referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Also, a petition of citizens of Geauga...
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...Correspondence, Between the Hon. F. H. Elmore, One of the South Carolina ...

James Gillespie Birney, Franklin Harper Elmore - American Anti-Slavery Society - 1838 - 104 pages
...the right of petition. The right of the people of the non-slaveholding states to petition Congress for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and the traffic of human beings among the states, is as undoubted as any right guarantied by the Constitution...
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A Congressional Manual; Or, Outline of the Order of Business: In the House ...

Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1841 - 530 pages
...Adams presented a petition of inhabitants of the town of Perrinton, in the State of New York, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and the slave-trade between the several States ; and that no new State may be admitted into the Union...
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The Works of William E. Channing, D. D.

William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1843 - 432 pages
...relation to slavery under the present provisions of the Constitution. These States are bound to insist on the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia. Their power in this regard is unquestionable. To Congress is committed exclusively the government of...
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The Works of William E. Channing, D. D.

William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1843 - 442 pages
...relation to slavery under the present provisions of the Constitution. These States are bound to insist on the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia. Their power in this regard is unquestionable. To Congress is committed exclusively the government of...
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The American Whig Review, Volume 4; Volume 10

1849 - 770 pages
...efforts should be spared to elect Senators and Representatives to Congress, who will voto nnhesitatingly for the abolition of Slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, or the removal of" the seat of Government to a place consecrated to free soil. " Лето/raí, That...
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Miscellaneous Writings on Slavery

William Jay - Slavery - 1853 - 684 pages
...dissenting voice, instructed the Representatives in Congress " to use their utmost efforts to procure the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia." Yet there are those who would fain paralyze all our efforts by the assurance that public opinion is...
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The Political Text-book, Or Encyclopedia: Containing Everything Necessary ...

Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...of Dec. 1845, in laying on the table an abolition petition, presented by Mr. Culver of NY, praying of such fugitive by such marshal or his deputy, or whilst at any time in h ( , . YEAS.— Messrs. S. Adams, of Miss.; Atkinson, of Va.; Barringer, of NC ; Bayley, of Va. ; Bedinger,...
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An Inquiry Into the Law of Negro Slavery in the United States of ..., Volume 1

Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - Slavery - 1858 - 612 pages
...been the questions as to the admission of new States into the Union, where slavery was recognized ; the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and in the forts and arsenals, and other public property belonging to the United States, and situated...
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An Historical Sketch of Slavery: From the Earliest Periods

Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - History - 1858 - 310 pages
...been the questions as to the admission of new States into the Union, where slavery was recognized ; the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and in the forts and arsenals, and other public property belonging to the United States, and situated...
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