Petition to the Legislature of New York
Dear Mr. Garrison: The attention of your readers, in the State of New York, is invited to the following Petition, designed for immediate circulation, and to be early forwarded to the Legislature now in session in Albany: —
PETITION
To the Senate and Assembly of the State of New York:
The undersigned, citizens and inhabitants of the State of New York, believing SLAVERY to be the great cause of our present national calamities, earnestly desire you to instruct the Senators and request the Representatives in Congress, from this State, to immediately institute measures for the abolition of Slaver under the War Power. ——— AARON M. POWELL,, Ghent, N.Y.
(Liberator, February 21, 1862, pg 2)
