...most strongly exemplified in 1837. Various petitions were sent in, from different states, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Mr. Adams, after presenting petitions from New-Hampshire and from certain ladies of Virginia,...

...determination to enlarge its borders and its evils, by the addition of new and large territories. Petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia and the Territories, began to pour into Congress, from every section of the East and North. These were generally presented...

...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 report thereon. This committee consisted of Messrs. Pinckney of South Carolina, Hamer of Ohio, Pierce...

...governments over New Mexico and California : to vote always, and in every stage of the question, for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia : and to vote always, and in every stage of the question, against the admission of another slaveholding State...

...representatives in Congress are hereby requested to use all constitutional and proper means for the immediate abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia and all other places under the exclusive jurisdiction of the general government, and to prohibit its existence...

...presented fifteen petitions, all numerously signed, from sundry inhabitants of Pennsylvania, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. In presenting these petitions, Mr. Adams remarked, that although the petitioners were not...

...territorial governments over New Mexico and California : to vote always, in every stage of the question, for the abolition of slavery and .the slave trade in the District of Columbia : and to vote always, ia every stage of the question, against the admission of another slaveholding State...

...inffuence in favor of the prohibition of slavery in the territories of the United States, and in favor of the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Referred to the committee on federal relations. By Mr. Dennis: of AC Earl and 70 others,...

...were soon flooded with petitions, full of the vilest abuse and slander of the South, and praying for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia. Others followed asking the Abolition of Slavery in the Territories, Forts, Dockyards, <fec.,...

...request of a respectable member of the Society of Friends, he drafted a memorial to Congress, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, in the District of Columbia. This memorial having been revised and modified, was signed by about eleven hundred citizens...