 That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that...  Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and ... - Page 1603by United States. Congress - 1837Full view - About this book
 | 1837 - 486 pages
...extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, should, without being either printed or referred, be laid on the table, and that no further action whatever should be had thereon." [Passed at the first session — yeas 117, nays 68 — at the second, debate being cut off by the previous... | |
 | James Gillespie Birney, Franklin Harper Elmore - 1838 - 104 pages
...the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, without being either printed or referred, should be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever should be had thereon ; and whereas such a disposition of petitions, then or thereafter to be received, is a virtual denial... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - 1838 - 144 pages
...extent whatever to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon." Petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1841 - 530 pages
...relating in any way or to any extent whatever to the subject of slavery or the abolition of slavery, shall without being printed or referred be laid upon the table, and that no further action be had thereon," and that under the operation of said order, the gentleman from Massachusetts would... | |
 | William Henry Seward, John Mather Austin - 1849 - 430 pages
...extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had- thereon." When the first of these resolutions was taken up, Mr. Adams said, if the House... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - 1854 - 804 pages
...papers relating in any way to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without either being printed or referred, be laid upon the table; and that no further action whatever be had upon them." AH these resolutions were adopted ; and the latter one by a vote of 117 to 68; so... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1856 - 418 pages
...extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon." When the first of these resolutions was taken up, Mr. Adams said, if the House... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1856 - 418 pages
...extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further ar.tion whatever shall be had thereon." When the firs* of these resolutions was taken up, Mr. Adams... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Linn, Nathan Sargent - 1857 - 470 pages
...extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon." J That the adoption of this rule by the House, instead of pursuing the practice... | |
 | Elizabeth A. Linn, Nathan Sargent - 1857 - 452 pages
...extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon/' That the adoption of this rule by the House, instead of pursuing the practice... | |
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