...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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 within...

...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 within...

...Representatives, to take into consideration what disposition should be made of petitions and memorials for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and to report thereon. On the ISth of May, the committee made a long report, through Mr. Finckney, recommending,...

...constituents, whom it was at all times his pleasure to serve, he had to present petitions praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, from 3,824 ladies of the city of Lowell and the towns of Amesbury, Andover, Haverhill, Newburyport,...