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PETITIONS PRESENTED BY Mr. SLADE.Monday, February IB.it having been resolved by tbe House vlt; ibat members be author zed to hand j liiions to the Clerk at ihe table, and that petitions so handed Se entered by the Clerk in the same manner as if presented in the usual form/3 Mi, Slaoc presented die following petitions, viz.Of J. B. Bloss and 52 other men and 23 women, of Livingston county, New York, remonstrating against the espionage to which the post office m Richmond, Virginia, and post offices in other places, are subjected, with tbe knowledge of the Pot* master General, and asking the appointment of a special t»m-mittee to investigate the abuses complained of.Of Edward Lewis and 16 other men, of Lenox, New Y rk. reciting tbe perpetration of mob violence, in the St .te of Tennessee, upon the person of Amos Dresser, a citizen of Massachusetts ; in the State of Georgia, upon tb© person of Aaron Vi . Kirch c II, a citizen of New Jersey; and in the State of Illinois,I upon the person of Elijah P. Lovejoy, and the unlawful seizure j and imprisonment for eight months, in the city of Washington,I of Reuben Crandall, a citizen of the State of New York ; and I also, that a member of tbe Senate of tbd United Stairs, front j South Carolina, had declared in his place in that body that, an abolitionist should com© tu that State, he would he hung, in spite of any Government on earth ; by reason of all which, thefree citizens of paid State of New York are shut out from their rights under the Constitution, and exposed to loss of property, liberty, and life, within the jurisdiction of the United State*, and praying for an inquiry into tbe facts recited, and the adoption of uncbsurea to remedy the evil complained of.AUo, petitions for tbe recognition of tbe independence of the Republic of Hayti, from Josiah Morse and 404 men and women of St. Johnsbury, Vermont; Nathan Jones and 48 other men, of Northfield, Vermont ; James Morns and 33 men and women, ot Vershire, Vermont; Silas Smith and 61 men and women, of tbs same place; Amos P. St. John and 27 o’her men, of Walton, New York; John G. West and 25 other men, of Williamsburg, New York; James Batcheller and I 93 other men and women, of Marlboro3, N. H. ; Samuel Eastman and 51 other men, otLandaff, N. H. ; Eli Nichols and 73 men and women, of B*1*
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Washington National Intelligencer
Washington, Washington-DC, US
Thu, Mar 14, 1839
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