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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
May
Year
1841
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

That while petitions and memorial in favor of freedom nre refused a hearing of nny sort in both houses of congress, the memorials of the mhabitants of the District of Columbia, lor the privilege of holding and selling slaves, and against the interfcrence of "fanatics" with iheir indescriptible rights, was, at ihe request of Mr. Clay, and without oppositton from anv quarter, read by the clerk of the Senate, and debated in ful!. What a fact to be recorded in the Senate of this Republic!