 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...  The Congressional Globe - Page 75by United States. Congress - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1902 - 712 pages
...speech, the chair decided that he could not do so without leave of the house. rjWilliam] Slade, Speech on the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia, December 20, 1837 (no title-page), \-gpassim. 182. L'Amistad Case (1839-1840) BY REVEREND... | |
 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - American newspapers - 1938 - 528 pages
...29th ult., there were presented in the House of Representatives petitions from 22 states, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia; and that Texas may remain without the pale of our jurisdiction. These questions bid fair to consume the... | |
 | Joseph Sabin - America - 1873 - 590 pages
...20088 DICKSON (John). Remarks of Mr. Dickson, of New York, on the Presentation of Several Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia. Delivered in the House ... February 2, 1835. Washington. 1835. 8vo, pp. 7. H. 20089 DICKSON.... | |
 | United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - American newspapers - 1936 - 510 pages
...should be spared to elect Senators and Representatives to Congress who will vote unhesitatingly for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. (94) 1724 - DTD July 17; ed:2/l,2 - "There are those who laugh at the action of those without... | |
 | Gerda Lerner - African American women - 1981 - 254 pages
...businesslike way to organize its petition activity by taking pledges from delegates to send petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia to each town in their several states in the course of the present season. Undertaking also... | |
 | Robert Franklin Durden - History - 1985 - 166 pages
...felony. Next the AntiSlavery Society began to flood the United States Congress with petitions demanding the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, over which the Constitution gave Congress sole power. Opponents of President Jackson and... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - Political Science - 1979 - 414 pages
...negotiations with Canada and Mexico for the recovery of fugitive slaves, and, of course, the maintenance of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia and the territories. The iniquities of the Second Seminóle War were a theme Giddings took up early and recurred to often.... | |
 | Robert Vincent Remini - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 884 pages
...Congress, i st session, pp. 778-780. Clay was speaking to a petition from Quakers in Philadelphia for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. 43. Clay to Whittier, July 22, 1 837, in Clay, Papers, IX, 64. Carson brightly responded:... | |
 | Kate E. R. Pickard - Social Science - 1995 - 540 pages
...reads: "Mr. Buchanan presented a memorial of a number of youth of the City and County of Philadelphia, praying the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia and Territories of the United States." Unlike the newspaper account, the Senate document does not state... | |
 | Salmon Portland Chase - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 532 pages
...on the firmness of the men of the Free States. What is your position in regard to this question? 2. The abolition of slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia. 1 have ever regarded slavery, in the District, as unconstitutional. I believe with that NY... | |
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