A long report from a Special Committee of the Legislature, responding to documents which had been sent to the Governor from several southern state Legislatures, complaining about abolitionists and maintaining…
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These resolutions express a similar view as those from the Mass Legislature (April 9), yet at the same time they encourage a free press. To punish the authors of treasonable…
An item titled Negro Suffrage indicates that the House of Representatives in Connecticut has recently voted by 164 to 33 not to recommend expunging the word “white” in the clause…
This is the report of a Special Joint Committee of the Massachusetts Legislature, urging that the subject of the slave trade is deserving of immediate attention of the national government.
A long letter from Otis, in which he responds to a report on actions in the Rhode Island Legislature which have been called to his attention. The reference is to…
House of Representatives acts to empower the Governor to take steps to insure that citizens of the state who are charged in slave states as being runaway slaves, be given…
Under Refuge of Oppression – titled “More Southern Thunder!” A report from a Legislative committee in response to the refusal of the Governor of Maine to “deliver up two of…
Here is a long two-column listing of petitions presented, with the names of lead petitioners, indicating the number of signers, and towns from which they come. Petitions cover a range…
January 21, 1842 This is a notice from the Governor, to the state Legislature, “laying before it a law of Virginia, calculated to embarrass our commerce.” The message includes the…
June 10, 1842 An item from the Washington Globe, warning that the Massachusetts Legislature “are resolved to make black and white the same”….. It worries that because there is an…