...memorial of the Cain quarterly meeting of the religious society of Friends in Pennsylvania, requesting Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. On this subject he had expressed his opinions to the Senate on Thursday last, and he had...

...furnishing л few facts to sustain this position. 1. The fact, that all petitions and memorials praying Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia and the Territories are laid on the table without reading, and that by the votes of northern...

...Legislature of the State of Michigan, and praying that body to pass resolutions asserting the constitutional power of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia and in the Territories where they exist, and to prohibit the slave trade between the States....

...session for its better regulation and government. Resolutions were also passed declaring the right of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia ; and solemnly protesting against the admission of Texas, or any other state, into this union,...

...session for its better regulation and government. Resolutions were also passed declaring the right of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia ; and solemnly protesting against the admission of Texas, or any other state, into this union,...

...COLUMBIA. I eome now, Mr. SPEAKER, to a grave and important question, namely, that of the constitutional power of congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. The right to adopt the rule before us, and thereby reject all petitions and other papers...

...session fbr its better regulation and government. Resolutions were also passed declaring the right of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia ; and solemnly protesting against the admission of Texas, or any other state, into this union,...

...Mr. Buchanan presented to the Senate a memorial from a Society of Friends m Penney Ivarda, requesting Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. He urged the necessity of adopting some mode of disposing of alt. such fetitionci wiuout...

...Senate the memorial of the Society of Friends, adopted at their Cain quarterly meeting, requesting Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. Mr. Benton rose to express his concurrence in the suggestion of the Senator from Pennsylvania,...

...Crafts, of Vermont, presented to the Senate the legislative Resolve of that State declaring it the duty of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia ; but the Senate raised the question of reception, and laid that question on the table, leaving...