 | Jacob William Schuckers - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...on the Adams side. In 1828 Mr. Chase was one of those who drew up a petition to Congress praying for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia. What it was that occasioned this petition it is difficult to say ; probably it grew out of the painful... | |
 | Nathan Sargent - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...both Houses of the Twentyfourth Congress was consumed in debate upon the reception of petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, and upon the subject of suppressing incendiary publications or preventing their being transported in the... | |
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...roll of cannon. The question found its way into the dehates of Congress in the form of petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia. If the slaveholders had allowed these petitions to be received and referred, taking no notice of them,... | |
 | Nathan Sargent - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...disreputable. On the 6th of February (1837), after sundry petitions had been presented by different members for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia, — several by Mr. Adams, — he presented a petition from nine women of Fredericksburg, Virginia,... | |
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...roll of cannon. The question found its way into the debates of Congress in the form of petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia. If the slaveholders had allowed these petitions to be received and referred, taking no notice of them,... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 1014
...career, presented fifteen petitions, all numerously signed, from 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 his immediate... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...which were referred to appropriate committees. The other two contained each three several prayers: I, the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia ; 2, the prohibition of the slave-trade between the States ; 3, to refuse the admission of any new... | |
 | 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...acquired by the Federal government, but accomplished nothing. It also took an active part in urging the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia. In this it had the sympathy of great numbers of the people of the State who were not abolitionists.... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 1042
...substitute for an elder bro., and was in two severe engagements with the Indians near Sandusky Buy. He afterward taught school ; was adm. to the bar in...Territories. Feb. 9, 1841, he delivered his first antislavery speech upon the Indian war in Fla., which he contended was a proslavery contest. His resolutions... | |
 | Francis Samuel Drake - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 1054
...substitute for an elder bro., and was in two severe engagements with the Indians near Sandusky Bay. lie afterward taught school ; was adm. to the bar in 1820;...Territories. Feb. 9, 1841, he delivered his first mitislavcry speech upon the Indian war in Fla., which he contended was a proslavery contest. His resolutions... | |
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Adams upon the right of petition, and became a prominent champion of the abolition of slavery and the slave-trade in the District of Columbia and the Territories. 
