 Resolved, That all petitions. memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table,...  The United States Magazine and Democratic Review - Page 3271840Full view - About this book
 | Abolitionists - 1836 - 96 pages
...country. Now, mark the base surrender of this right — the wicked dereliction of this duty. All ' resolutions and propositions ' relating ' in any way...extent whatever to the subject of slavery,' shall be laid on the table, and ' no farther action whatever shall be had thereon.' — What a spectacle... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
...the House of Representatives passed a resolution, which was again adopted in its second session, " that all petitions, memorials, resolutions and propositions,...to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, should, without being either printed or referred, be laid on the table, and that no further action... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1837 - 738 pages
...accordingly read: " lit'olvcd, That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way or to any extent whatever to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or reft rred, be laid on the table,... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Petition, Right of - 1838 - 144 pages
...South Carolina, was the chairman: "That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way or to any extent whatever to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table,... | |
 | James Gillespie Birney, Franklin Harper Elmore - American Anti-Slavery Society - 1838 - 104 pages
...resolution, whereby it was ordered that all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, without being either printed or referred, should be laid upon the table,... | |
 | William Jay - Blacks - 1839 - 232 pages
...and no one member of the local legislature could be permitted to propose even a committee of inquiry, "relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery!" The fact that 62 northern members on this occasion, arrayed themselves on the side of the slaveholders,... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1841 - 530 pages
...of the 18th inst. which directs " that all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers relating in any way or to any extent whatever to the subject of slavery or the abolition of slavery shall without being printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that... | |
 | United States - 1844 - 671 pages
...resolution which was adopted in -the House of Representatives in the twenty-fourth Congress, on the 20th of May, 1836, (Mr. Pinckney's resolution) was as follows...printed or referred, be laid on the table, and that no further action shall be had thereon. That adopted at the first session of the twenty-fifth Congress... | |
 | William Henry Seward, John Mather Austin - Antislavery movements - 1849 - 430 pages
...resolution, viz. : — " Resolved, That all petitions. memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table,... | |
 | William Henry Seward, John Mather Austin - Antislavery movements - 1849 - 424 pages
...viz. : — " Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating hi any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table,... | |
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