 | United States. Congress. House - 1844 - 702 strani
...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 - 1838 - 104 strani
...the 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... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1841 - 530 strani
...Adams 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... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 432 strani
...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 - 1843 - 442 strani
...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 strani
...efforts 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 - 1853 - 684 strani
...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 - 1857 - 672 strani
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - 1858 - 310 strani
...been the questions as to the admission of new States into the Union, where slavery was recognized ; the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and in the forts and arsenals, and other public property belonging to the United States, and situated... | |
 | Thomas Read Rootes Cobb - 1858 - 612 strani
...been the questions as to the admission of new States into the Union, where slavery was recognized ; the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and in the forts and arsenals, and other public property belonging to the United States, and situated... | |
| |
Smith (December 27, 1847) praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia. 
