 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...  Tennessee Historical Magazine - Page 226edited by - 1918Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress. House - Government publications - 1824 - 924 pages
...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,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 778 pages
...numerously subscribed, from sundry inhabitants of Pennsylvania, all of the same purport, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and moved tliat the first of them should be read; and it was read accordingly. Mr. A. then... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1835 - 720 pages
...1835. Mr. Pfiilo C. Fuller presented a memorial of inhabitants of the State of New York, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia ; which memorial was read, and laid on the table. Mr. Hubbard presented a petition of Thomas... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1835 - 1436 pages
...matters therewith connected, arising out of a petition of citizens of the State of Massachusetts, praying the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, which Mr. John Quincy Adams was about to present on the 4th of January instant, the cousideration... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1836 - 92 pages
...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 - Law - 1837 - 738 pages
...fortnight, from certain inhabitants of Dover, in the county of Norfolk, Siate of Massachusetts, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. The subject came up last Monday, (t gentleman from North Carolina [Mr. BTICCM] being entitled... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1837 - 104 pages
...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.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1838 - 528 pages
...York, and the petition of a number of the inhabitants of Wcstbloomfield, New York, severally praying the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and Territories of the United States, and the slave trade between the States ; the petition... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Petition, Right of - 1838 - 144 pages
...referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon." Petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia and the Territories, for the prohibition of the internal traffic in slaves, and against the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1839 - 944 pages
...Peck : Of inhabitants of Rushford, county of Allegany, in th* State of New York. Petitions praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, or in the District of Columbia and the Territories of tht United States, and the prohibition... | |
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