 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, and that...  The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the ... - Page 761894Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1836 - 650 pages
...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, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon." MIT 26, 1336.] Abolition Report. [H. 0» U. Mr, PHILLIPS rose to make a point... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1837 - 738 pages
...any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, «r the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no action whatever shall be hod thereon. Mr. II. said he thought it was time that the House should adopt... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Petition, Right of - 1838 - 144 pages
...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, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon." Petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of... | |
 | James Gillespie Birney, Franklin Harper Elmore - American Anti-Slavery Society - 1838 - 104 pages
...the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, without being either printed or referred, should be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever should be had thereon ; and whereas such a disposition of petitions, then or thereafter to be received, is a virtual... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1841 - 530 pages
...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 no further action be had thereon," and that the said memorial would be laid on the table without further action thereon.... | |
 | William Henry Seward, John Mather Austin - Antislavery movements - 1849 - 414 pages
...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, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon." When the first of these resolutions was taken up, Mr. Adams said, if the House... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1854 - 804 pages
...relating in any way to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without either being printed or referred, be laid upon the table; and that no further action whatever be had upon them." AH these resolutions were adopted ; and the latter one by a vote of 117 to 68; so... | |
 | William Henry Seward - Legislators - 1856 - 418 pages
...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, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon." When the first of these resolutions was taken up, Mr. Adams said, if the House... | |
 | William Henry Seward - Legislators - 1856 - 418 pages
...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, and that no further ar.tion whatever shall be had thereon." When the firs* of these resolutions was taken up, Mr. Adams... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Linn, Nathan Sargent - Physicians - 1857 - 470 pages
...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, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon." J That the adoption of this rule by the House, instead of pursuing the practice... | |
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