...Pierce voted yes, Cushing and friends no. Monday, Dec. 26, 1836, Mr. Adams presented a petition for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, which was laid on the table, 116 to 36. Franklin Pierce in the affirmative ; Adams. Cushing,...

...part of the slaveholding interest. The infamous twenty-first rule abridging the right of petition, the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia and between the different states, the prohibition of slavery in every territory of the United States, the...

...the union, soon affected the deliberations of congress. Petitions from the free states, praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, were daily presented. This movement was deprecated by a large majority of congress. Southern...

...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...

...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...

...defeated. Simultaneously with the mail question, another kindred one concerning the right of petition for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the district of Columbia, was considered. The society of Friends in the state of Pennsylvania, petitioned congress,...

...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, &c.,...

...waiting for the United States to define their position relative to Slavery. The North was demanding the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. The South, loud in their complaints of the insecurity of their property, demanded a renewed...

...Jour., p. 153. On the 13th January, 1840, Mr. Lincoln, of Massachusetts, presented petitions praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and in th» Territories gf the United States. Mr. Cave Johnson moved to loy the question of reception on...

...congress at a time of great excitement on the subject of slavery, ho not only took his stand by tho side of John Quincy Adams as a supporter of the right...prominent champion of the abolition of slavery and tho slave trade in the district of Columbia and the territories under the jurisdiction of the national...