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To the Congress of the United States. 


The petition of the undersigned, citizens of 
in the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts, respectfully represent, that at the session of 
the Legislature of said Commonwealth, held in the year 
1840, the following resolutions were adopted by large 
majorities in both branches of the Legislature. 


Wuereas Domestic Slavery exists in the District of Columbia, under the 
express authority of Congress, which, at the time of the cession of the Dis- 
trict, re-enacted the Slave Codes of Maryland and Virginia ; and whereas the 
sanction thus given to Slavery, and its continued toleration at the seat of goy- 
ernment, form a manifest violation, by this nation, of the first principles of 
justice, and have a tendency to corrupt the moral sense, and to lower the char- 
acter of the whole people of the United States; and whereas this nation can 
have no higher interest, either before God, or in the eyes of men, than the 
establishing of justice, and strengthening the just foundations of national honor ; 
and whereas Slavery in the District of Columbia being thus a national con- 
cern, and involving national responsibility, it is the right of the Commonwealth 
of Massachusetts to remonstrate against the common wrong, and the degrada- 
tion of national character ; therefore, 

Resolved, that Congress ought to exercise its acknowledged power in the 
immediate suppression of Slavery and the Slave trade in the District of 
Columbia. And whereas, by the Constitution of the United States, Congress 
has the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and between the 
several states of the Union, in the exercise of which power, Congress, in the 
year eighteen hundred and eight, abolished the foreign Slave trade, and 
whereas, a domestic Slave trade, as unjustifiable in principle as the African 
Slave trade, and scarcely less cruel and inhuman in practice, is now carried on 
between the several States, therefore, 

Resolved, that the Domestic Slave trade between the several States ought to 
be abolished by Congress without delay. 


Your petitioners, fully concurring in the above resolu- 
tions, request that Congress will iminediately abolish 
Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia 
and in the Territories, and the inter-state Slave Trade 
between the several States of the Union. 


| To the Con cress of the United States. 


The petit » © the undersigned, citizens of 

in the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts, represents that they are earnestly desirous that 
the Government of the U. 8. should take no step, the 
direct tendency of which would be to extend and per- 


petuate the curse and sin of Slavery in this land: 
Wherefore they respectfully request that neither Florida 

nor any other new State may be admitted into the Union, 

whose Constitution of Government shall tolerate Domestic 


Slavery. 


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To the Congress of the United States. 


The petition of the undersigend, citizens of 

in the Commonwealth of Massa- 
chusetts respectfully represents that your petitioners are 
conscientiously scrupulous of interfering personally through 
their official agents in the internal concerns of the Slave 
States of this Union, either by restoring their fugitive 
Slaves, aiding in suppressing Slave insurrections, or in 
any manner or form helping to keep any portion of their 
population in a condition of Slavery. 

Wherefore they ask that you will be pleased to take 
measures for amending the Constitution of the United 
States, either so as to abolish Slavery, or so as explicitly 
to exonerate the people of each State from all obligation 
to assist in sustaining it. 


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