 | F. W. Bogen - Germans - 1851 - 188 pages
...prisons," and the other "the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition2 of Slavery, the relief3 of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and the...improvement of the condition of the African race." Dr. Franklin died on the I7thof April, 1790, closing a long and useful career of eighty-four years... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1854 - 722 pages
...consider and report thereon by ll or otherwise. Mr. RORERTS presented the petition of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race; and the petition was read, and referred to the committee... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1854 - 730 pages
...Pennsylvania Society for promoting the aboliH. OF R. Reportt on Variant Claims. FEBRUARY, 1817. tion of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race," praying that further measures may be adopted for... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1854 - 724 pages
...restrictions may be imposed on the issuing of patents.—Referred to tue Committee on the Judiciary. tioD of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and for improving the condition of the African race," praying that further measures may be adopted for... | |
 | John Stanford - Old age (Christian) - 1855 - 488 pages
...respect, at a distance, may be mentioned his election, as early as 1796, as a member of "the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the...Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage, and for Improving the Condition of the African Race ; " of which Dr. Benjamin Franklin was the first President,... | |
 | Wendell Phillips - Constitutional law - 1856 - 220 pages
...To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States : The Memorial of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...improvement of the condition of the African race, respectfully showeth : That from a regard for the happiness of mankind, an association was formed,... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 828 pages
...hundred for one. FBIDAT, February 12. Abolition of Slavery. The following memorial of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the...improvement of the condition of the African race, was presented and read : The memorial respectfully showeth, That from a regard for the happiness of... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...table. On the next day the following memorial was presented and read : " A memorial of the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the...unlawfully held in bondage, and the improvement of the African race. " The memorial respectfully showeth : " That, from a regard for the happiness of mankind,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesmen - 1859 - 680 pages
...refined hunrmity : one "for alleviating the miseries of public prisons" and the other, "for promoling the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondacCj and the improvement of the condition of the African race" -Of ertchof these Dr. Franklin was... | |
 | United States - 1860 - 36 pages
...ever offered, and embodies the spirit of a majority of the rest. * ' A Memorial of the Pennsylvania Society for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery, the...of Free Negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and the of the African race. " The Memorial respectfully showeth : That, from a regard for the happiness of... | |
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Society for alleviating the miseries of public prisons ; and the Pennsylvania Society for promoting the abolition of slavery, the relief of free negroes unlawfully held in bondage, and the improvement of the condition of the African race. 
