 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1844 - 702 pages
...Claims. By Mr. Giddings: A petition of inhabitants of Erie county, in the State of New York, praying the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia: which was referred to the Committee for the District of Columbia. Also, a petition of citizens of Geauga... | |
 | James Gillespie Birney, Franklin Harper Elmore - American Anti-Slavery Society - 1838 - 104 pages
...right of petition. The right of the people of the non-slaveholding states to petition Congress for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and the traffic of human beings among the states, is as undoubted as any right guarantied by the Constitution... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1839 - 944 pages
...which petition was laid on the table under the order of December 12th. Petitions praying the immediate abolition of slavery and the slavetrade in the District of Columbia, and of the slave trade between the States; the rejection of any application for the admission of Florida,... | |
 | Vermont gen. assembly, senate - 1839 - 382 pages
...traffic. 2. Retolved, That Congress, by the constitution of the United States, have full power to abolish slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia and the territories of the United States, and that such power ought to he immediately exercised for the abolition of slavery... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1841 - 530 pages
...presented a petition of inhabitants of the town of Perrinton, in the State of New York, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and the slave-trade between the several States ; and that no new State may be admitted into the Union whose... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1843 - 442 pages
...relation to slavery under the present provisions of the Constitution. These States are bound to insist on the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia. Their power in this regard is unquestionable. To Congress is committed exclusively the government of... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - Antislavery movements - 1843 - 432 pages
...relation to slavery under the present provisions of the Constitution. These States are bound to insist on the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia. Their power in this regard is unquestionable. To Congress is committed exclusively the government of... | |
 | 1849 - 770 pages
...should be spared to elect Senators and Representatives to Congress, who will voto nnhesitatingly for the abolition of Slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, or the removal of" the seat of Government to a place consecrated to free soil. " Лето/raí, That... | |
 | William Jay - Slavery - 1853 - 684 pages
...dissenting voice, instructed the Representatives in Congress " to use their utmost efforts to procure the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia." Yet there are those who would fain paralyze all our efforts by the assurance that public opinion is... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...of Dec. 1845, in laying on the table an abolition petition, presented by Mr. Culver of NY, praying of such fugitive by such marshal or his deputy, or whilst at any time in h ( , . YEAS.— Messrs. S. Adams, of Miss.; Atkinson, of Va.; Barringer, of NC ; Bayley, of Va. ; Bedinger,... | |
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Adams upon the right of petition, and became a prominent champion of the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia and the Territories. 
