 | United States. Congress - Law - 1836 - 650 pages
...as follows: " And whereas it is extremely important and desirable that the agitation of this subject should be finally arrested, for the purpose of restoring...public mind, your committee respectfully recommend the adoption of the following additional resolution, viz: "Resolved, That all petitions, memorials, resolution!,... | |
 | Abolitionists - 1836 - 96 pages
...extremely important and desirable that the AGITATION on this subject should be finally ARRESTED, for_the purpose of restoring tranquillity to the public mind,...respectfully recommend the following resolution.' Order reigns in Warsaw, were the terms in which the triumph of Russia over the liberties of Poland... | |
 | John Quincy Adams - Petition, Right of - 1838 - 144 pages
...themselves to be, that it was " extremely important and desirable that, the agitation of this subject should be finally arrested, for the purpose of restoring tranquillity to the public mind." This tranquillizing resolution was adopted at so late a period of the session, that, excepting the... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 574 pages
...object, namely, as stated in the preamble to the first of them, " that the agitation on this subject should be finally arrested, for the purpose of restoring tranquillity to the public mind." For they virtually recognized the doctrine put forward by the advocates of the Right of Petition, and... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 582 pages
...object, namely, as stated in the preamble to the first of them, " that the agitation on this subject should be finally arrested, for the purpose of restoring tranquillity to the public mind." For they virtually recognized the doctrine put forward by the advocates of the Right of Petition, and... | |
 | William Henry Seward, John Mather Austin - Antislavery movements - 1849 - 414 pages
...Columbia. " And whereas, It is extremely important and desirable that the 282 agitation of this subject should be finally arrested, for the purpose of restoring...public mind, your committee respectfully recommend the adoption of the following additional resolution, viz. : — " Resolved, That all petitions, memorials,... | |
 | David W. Bartlett - 1852 - 318 pages
...Columbia. " And whereas it is extremely important and desirable that the agitation of this subject should be finally arrested, for the purpose of restoring...public mind, your committee respectfully recommend the adoption of the following additional resolution, viz. : " Resolved, That all petitions, memorials,... | |
 | William Jay - Slavery - 1853 - 684 pages
...by him to the flames ? And yet in what particular are the rights of the petitioners more respected by the practice we have mentioned ? The petitions...barriers" which serve to protect and secure a system of iniquitious cruelty and oppression. To arrest this agitation, the committee did not scruple to recommend... | |
 | William Jay - Slavery - 1853 - 684 pages
...by him to the flames ? And yet in what particular are the rights of the petitioners more respected by the practice we have mentioned ? The petitions...; an avowed interference to arrest that agitation, whieh we are assured by Mr. Strange, " breaks down the moral barriers" which serve to protect and secure... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1856 - 418 pages
...Columbia. " And whereas, It is extremely important and desirable that the agitation of this subject should be finally arrested, for the purpose of restoring...public mind, your committee respectfully recommend the adoption of the following additional resolution, viz. :— " Resolved, That all petitions, memorials,... | |
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And whereas, It is extremely important and desirable that the agitation of this subject should be finally arrested, for the purpose of restoring tranquillity to the public mind... 
