 | United States. Congress. House - 1824 - 924 Seiten
...DC,— Continued. Description of book. Volume. Number. 1 23 memorial of inhabitants of, in relation to the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia - Ex. Doc. 4 140 1 22 Watts, Archibald, revolutionary certificate Rep. Com. 1 165 1 23 Waterman,... | |
 | 1833 - 670 Seiten
...signatures of more than one thousand citizens of Pennsylvania, praying for the enactment of a law or laws for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Although it was not likely, at this late period of the session, and at a time when the attention... | |
 | 1886 - 684 Seiten
...was not made responsible for its propositions, presented a petition signed by 172 females, praying the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and moved that it be referred to the Committee on the District of Columbia. Mr. CRAMER moved... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1835 - 718 Seiten
...the House, they might be referred to a committee, and acted upon without printing. The question being taken, the motion to print was agreed to: Yeas 159,...Friends; friends, he would take leave to say, in the best sense, not only of the African race, in whose behalf thev plead, but of the preservation and perpetuity... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1835 - 1436 Seiten
...on the Public Lands. Mr. Adams presented a petition of sundry females of the State of Massachusetts, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia ; which petition was referred to the select committee appointed on the 8th of February last.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - 1835 - 720 Seiten
...UuSautt. Mr. Phillips presented a memorial of inhabitants of Cambridge, in the State of Massachusetts, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and extending the means o| education to every colored person in the said District ; which... | |
 | 1836 - 92 Seiten
...societies, encouraged by the success of the last year, should exert themselves with redoubled zeal to efiect the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. ' Resolved, That the people of the United States in tolerating a domestic slave trade, incur... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1837 - 738 Seiten
...his fair constituents, whom it was at all times his pleasure to serve, he hud to present petitions praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, from 3,824 ladies of the city of Lowell and the towns of Amesbury, Andover, Haverhill, Newburyport,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1837 - 104 Seiten
...on Foreign Relations. Mr. Davis presented the petition of a number of the women of Uxbridge, praying the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Ordered, That they lie on the table. That the petition be not received. On motion by Mr.... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1838 - 144 Seiten
...presented by him, should be referred to a select committee, with instruction to report a bill providing for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. While Mr. SLADE was supporting this motion, in the regular course of debate, a question of... | |
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William Slade, of Vermont, joined to the presentation of some abolitionist petitions the motion that they should be referred to an extraordinary committee, with instructions to bring in a bill for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District... 
