iiiiiiiiiiniiii i*"—"•"k*HnH'iir mmmmmmt^atmmMmmemMSaMllmSSMitB n-rrtttnnm nrnn niiiiimyiOTi I II in—win • II jiu .1 T"T liberty "throughouMAMCIPATOKt all the land, unto all the inhabitant* thereof.-Lev. 25 10. NEW-YORK, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 4, 18 3 8. JOSHUA LEAVITT, Editor, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. MAIKE. 1843 Silas Wright,t§||^ and with honest means. " If thou inayest be free, use it," or of subsequen t inquiry concerning them, will I hope be my 1841 John Rugg'es.t NEW-JERSEY. of foreign trade at , to the Petitioners and to the writers of the letters, The names above the dash under each state, are present is apostolical advice. And to this end, we venture to re­ apology 1843 Reuel Williams,t§||T 1839 S. L. Southard,*! for referring thern to the Journals of the House of Bcpre- members, whose term expires March 3, 1839. The marks NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1841 Garrett D. Wall. commend to our fellow-citizens the following important sug­ ives, upon which I have insisted that the names oi the signify : ,idc from what they pro- 1841 Henry Hubbard,tt5p! PENNSYLVANIA. gestions, from the address of the Convention, as pointing at mens and the number of signers to each Petition, with * Those who voted to lay petitions on the table Jan. 2, 1835, mention other things which 1843 STY. Pierce.f§||1i! 1839 Samuel McKe once to «the real cause and the true remedy of their depen­ the name of the place and State whence it came, should be airainst the motion of J. Dickson, of N. Y , to refer thern^ j the North. One is, that the VERMONT, 1841 James Buchanan,+t§||^' entered, for the fact of tin presentation and the disposal Ol Carried, 117 to 77. Majority 40. dence and thraldom. 1839 Benjamin Swift,* OHIO. ^vvn flour, but "crowd their planta- each Petition by the House. t Voted " That Congress ought not to interfere in any way 1843 Samuel Prentiss,* 1839 Thomas Morris, a, rice and tobacco, and then pay the " We have seen that with the industry, enterprise and I offered a Resolution to the House requiring of the Clerk, with slavery in the District of Columbia." Feb. 8, 1836, 1843 Wm. Allen,! economy of our northern brethren, and with equal favor from to cause to be made out a complete list of all the Petitions, passed, 132 to 45. Maj. 87. MASSACHUSETTS. .o pay the northern merchant, to pay the 1837 Thomas Ewing,* 1 the Government, we must not only have far surpassed them thus presented and thus treated at the last three Sessions of {. Voted for Pincknev's gag resolution, May 26, 1836. Car­ 1839 Daniel Webster, ior the flour they consume ;" by which INDIANA. in wealth, but tint wo must have been the most prosperous Congress—but the combination of northern lal or and south­ ried, 117 to 68. Maj. 46. 1841 John Davis,* 1839 John Tipton,|| lly number of millions more move annually people on the'globe. We have seen that our own mipiovi- ern capital to suppress the right of Petition and the freedom t Voted for the admission of Arkansas as a slave state, June RHODE ISLAND. 1843 Oliver II. Smith, .i to the North," so that, in September last, dence, the shrewder policy of northern friends, and the un­ of debate, unwilling to expose to the world the extent of 13, 1836. Carried, 138 to 56. Maj. Si. 1839 Asher Robbins* 1837 Wm. Hendricks, | ton and a barrel of canal flour commanded the equal action of the Government, have all conspired to bring their success, and the blushing honors of their triumph, re­ § Voted for Hawcs' gag resolution, Jan. 18, 1837. Carried, 1841 Neh. R. Knight,* upon U3 our present embarrassments. Not that they are CONNECTICUT. ILLINOIS. n Georgia." Another voluntary tribute is the fused to entertain the motion. Nor can I find it in my heart 115 to 57. Maj. 58. the immediat/cause ; but that they have so far weakened us, to blame the tacit confession implied by this refusal, that this It will be noticed that those whose names are decorated 1845 Dennis Kimberly, 1841 J. M. Robinson.i expended annually by our people in visits of plea- and made us so completely dependent upon the people of the catalogue of PETITIONERS spurned from the doors of a Willi the ab( ve marks have nearly all failed of re-election. 1839 0= J. M Nilestt§||tf 1843 R. M. Youi.g4t§i|ir! u'e North," which "swell the streams that are con- North for every thing, that the least shock to commerce, North°American Congress, would have exhibited to the Let others beware 1843 Perry Smith,t§p! MICHIGAN. , flowing from a waning to a growing people." The prostrates us, and the least pressure upon them is turned upon amazement of mankind and to the contempt of after ages, || Voted for Patton's gag, December 21, 1837, which fol­ 1837 Gideon Tomlmson,* '39 Lucius Lyon,4t§l|1f .A'miftee in passing here notice that not one third as much us with redoubled force. We have seen why it is that the the most melancholy document that ever issued from the lows : NEW YORK. '41 trJ. NorvelUt^i!" one people has risen like the rocket, and the other has fallen is expended by "our northern brethren" at the South in successors of that band of Patriots, who but three score and " Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, and papers 1839 N. P. Tallmadge.H like its stick. We have seen, that their positions must two years since, promulgated from the State House m Phila­ touching the abolition of slavery, or the buying, selling, or winter, although " they double us in population," as a mark have been reversed, if the southern people had maintained The Southern Direc; delphia, the DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. transferring of slaves in any state, district or territoiy of the Political Action against Slavery. of the difference of habit between the northern and southern their foreign trade. The opportunity is now offered to them We have been interested in examining a piece lately pub­ JOHN QUINCV ADAMS. United States, be laid on the table, without being debated, NO. VI. to resume it, and to reap the rich rewards from it, that they people. " The main difference is, that they are a home- printed, read or referred, and that no further action whatever Perhaps there is no intelligent abolitionist who has j lished in the Charleston Mercury, purporting to be an " Ad­ have hitherto transferred to their hands. Fellow-citizens, abiding, economical people ; while we [the South] incline too shall be had thereon." Carried, 122 to 74. Maj 48. the subject of political action an hour's serious attention, who dress to the People of the Southern and Southwestern will you not resume it 1—Every thing now encourages you much to the opposite traits of character Hence their gains, From the Anti-Slavery Almanac for 1839. ! Voted that John Q. Adams was out of order, because, in does not see the impropriety and inconsistency of his giving State?," by a Committee of the Convention of Southern to do so. American commerce is almost released from its illustrating the contempt cast upon the right of petition, he his vote, under any possible circumstances, in favor of any which are not larger in wealth than in power" And they fetters ; and your resources will enable you to control it. Roll of Infamy. Merchants which met at Richmond in April last. It discloses referred to a petition purporting to be from slaves. June candidate for Congress, or the State Legislature, who will exclaim, " Let us profit by their example." You are not wanting in means, in skill, in port or waters, The Political Creed of Abolitionists.—WE WILL numerous evidences of the imbecility and dependence of the 23, 1838. Carried, 115 to 36. Maj. 79. not act or vote in favor of a present emancipation. to accomplish the great enterprise. The legislatures of your slaveholding States, while it utterly fails to point out the In addition to all this " voluntary self-impoverishment," VOTE FOR NO MAN WHO VOTES AGAINST LIB­ But there are many good abolitionists who hesitate when respective States have made easy the way, and safe the at­ MAINE—8. Wm. Mason.T4t§ the address reiterates the usual complaints of the South ERTY. true cause or to prescribe an adequate remedy. Referring to * 4, tfi, 1. 6, } 5, § 5, || 4, John McK.e0n.t4t you ask them to go one step further, and act upon the prin­ tempt to accomplish it. They have authorised you to form The North has always had a majority in the U. S. House the [then existing] general pecuniary embarrassment and the about the inequality produced by the disbursements of the associations fortius purpose, in which you may invest what Hugh J. Anderson,||! Charles McVean,* ciples of voting for advocates of emancipation "irrespective of Representatives. Thus : of parties;1—that is, that in case the political party to which suspension of the banks throughout the country, the com­ national government. The whole amount of disbursements you please, without hazard of more than you invest. Your Thomas Davce,! Rutger B. Miller,5 they may happen to belong, will not nominate candidates in is set down at a thousand millions, of which " little short of interests, social, pecuniary and political, are deeply involved ] 1T89 | 17S« | 1803 | 1813 1 1819 | 1823 | 1833 1 1839 | George Evans, Henry Mitchell,* mittee find exchanges between the North and South from 7 •-K4, Sherman Page,t4.t§ favor of emancipation while the opposite party nominates in it.—A single, bold, united, manly effort, on your part, and 103 1(15 1 124 | 141 1 142 | John Fairfield;ti.f|M to 40 per cent, in favor of the former, the court dockets eight-tenths have gone North of the Potomac, or to citizens | Naifh.