 | John Quincy Adams - 1876 - 568 strani
...failed. Slade's motion of Monday, to refer a petition for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia to a select committee,...putting the question of laying on the table. So Slade to-dny got the floor, and, in a speech of two hours on slavery, shook the very hall into convulsions.... | |
 | Gerda Lerner - 1981 - 254 strani
...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 to petition... | |
 | Gerda Lerner, Sarah Moore Grimké - 1998 - 210 strani
...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 to petition... | |
 | the late Don E. Fehrenbacher - 2002 - 486 strani
...rose to address the House for the first time, presenting fifteen petitions from Pennsylvania Quakers for abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. He mildly expressed his belief that the slave trade "might be a proper subject of legislation... | |
 | Susan Zaeske - 2003 - 276 strani
...Group 233, National Archives, Washington, DC Petition of 600 Ladies of Utica, Oneida County, New York, for Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia, March 21, 1836. Library of Congress box 47, National Archives box 3, Record Group 233, National... | |
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Adams, IX, 275, I found this entry from Adams' diary: "Jan 18, 1836. . . . A petition from 366 inhabitants of Weymouth, praying for abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia was presented to the Congress. 