To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives, in Congress assembled:
The undersigned, citizens of the 33d Congressional District of the State of New York,
respectfully ask your Honorable Body to pass a law organizing Territorial Governments
for New Mexico and California, prohibiting the introduction of Slavery into said Territories.
As descendants of our illustrious Revolutionary ancestors, we feel deeply mortified
to have the world know that even an effort is made to doom to Slavery, lands that,
by the despised and down-trodden Mexicans, were made free.
As an evidence of the policy, the wisdom and the constitutionality of excluding Slavery
from our newly acquired territories, we would ask you to look at those might States
north-west of the Ohio, consecrated to Freedom by the Ordinance of 1787, and now teeming
with an industrious, intelligent, virtuous, happy and Free people. Thus would we ask
you, by wise legislation, to make New Mexico and California.
| L C McWethy | Aaron Tufts |
| Dan Sprague | A. D. Church |
| James Beath | Nelson Johnson |
| Samuel Starr | William Gillmore |
| B. Barnard | |
| Geo W Chaddock | Jacob Annis |
| A. E. Collins | J. T. Oslee |
| Loren S. Lemings | |
| Ledroit Cook | Martin Van Buren |
| Saml C Webb | H L Wait |
| Saml Crosmann | F. S. Bigelow |
| Wm Crosmann | |
| L Levi Shay | [Jos Perry?] |
| Ansel Estee | |
| H. Shumway | Wm Rudes |
| Simon Burnham | Samuel Heath |
| Horace Forbs | |
| Benjn Bisby | Alfred Bicknell |
| Levi McWethey | |
| George Marsh | Abraham Clute |
| M. J. Smead | Elihu Anderson |
| Joshua Shumway | |
| Norman Shepard | |
| Levi Cook | John [Gilmore?] |
| Samuel Phelps | |
| Almon Tompkins | Marvin T Hall |
| James Sprague Jr | |
| Hiram Clute | |
| Erastus Sprague | Isaac Shepard |
| Sam’l J. Lewis | C. H. Mason |
| Charles Anderson | Warren Fay |
| Amaziah Bibbins | George A. Morgan |
| Cornelius [Spuer?] | John C Holcomb |
| Samuel Gorton Jr | Samuel O Parks |
| B Bisbey jr | Horace Coe |
| Geo. Tomlinson | John Stewart |
| John Doty | Alvin Whitney |
| [R?]. A Crofoot | D D Bartholomew |
| C. W. Bisbey | [?]. L. Bibbins |
| N. French | Simeon. E. Dutton |
| Jacob Forbes | James Yelzy |
| John S Fosten | William Youngs |
| Benjamin Dunfee | B. Sanders Esq |
| Abam Pickard | Isaac Harris |
| George R D. Covell | M L Curtis |
| Morris Dutton | Joel Crofoot |
| Fitch. R. Dutton | Cyrus Tompkins |
| Hamden A. Olmsted | Robert Lewis |
| John Shepard | Wm B Burt |
| D. M. Marsh | E M Snow |
| E. Z. Robinson | Joseph Wellman |
| Samuel Adams | David Wylie |
| J. G. Miller | Samuel Gorton |
| B A Hubbard | S. J Lewis 2d |
| Harvey Coe | Nelson Clute |
| B F Dows | N. G. Smead |
| E. Vebzy | M. B. Hudson |
| Luther Shumway | A Cook |
| Charles Foster | W B Amy |
| Edward Cheney | Horace Cook |
| C. B. Pond | |
| E V A Barnes | B. Parks |
| G D. Crofoot | B. Wilkinson |
| G. Barnett | Julius Law |
| [Lencun ?] Bradley | Safford Lord |
| Henry. A. Olmsted | Ashley Townsend |
| Richard Covell | Stephen Branch |
| Stilman Lewis | Horace Bradley |
| John Hendee | Issachar Allen |
| Daniel Cheney | M Parsons |
| Chester [?] | Abner Dolbee |
| M C Mason | Wm Glass |
| J B Rogers | E Stanard |
| J. N. Rogers | S. N. [?] |
| James Baten | Baten |
| Horace Tanner | |
| Jasper. G. Halbut | Wm C Richardson |
| Aaron R Tufts | Oswald Bond |
| Osmond H Anderson | Horace S Hannann |
| S W. Butler | Aaron Cartwright |
| E L Sanly | Helim Waldo |
| Chas R Ward | R E Hord |
| S. O. Morgan | J Cook |
| P. Carpenter Jr. | C. A. Gorton |
| T P. Clark | Osha Bishop |
| H. B. Ewell | Wm. J. Church. |
| Alvin Scranton | J F. M. Bradley |
| J. H. Stanley | Amasa Hascall |
| Lucius Parks | Clark Selden |
| John G. Bixby | Sidney S. Hazleton |
| H. Daniels | John Lewis |
| J. S. Gibson | A. W. Smith |
| B R Crane | |
| Jeremiah Stratton | C G Beinsmaid |
| Thos Hines | Elisha Stamley |
| James Ballard | |
| Calvin Holbrook | |
| Lyman M. Smith | |
| D. C. Chamberlain | |
| Alexr Rose | |
| J. W. Whitney | Wm Calvert |
| Orrin Starr | Solon Hoskins |
| David Barron | |
| G. W. Annin | |
| Daniel Campbell | |
| Phineas [Scannlon?] | Peter Campbell |
| Rufus Bacon | D. M. Kenfield |
| J G. Buell | L. P. Wilcox |
| Joel Whiting | James Gardner |
| James Cooley | Wm Shumway |
| P. W. [?] | H Goodenow |
| E. S. [?] | B. W. Hand |
| John Barron | W G Gustin |
| H. B. Goodenow | D P Kneeland |
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N. York
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Petition of Aaron Tufts and 207 others citizens of the 33d congressional District New York praying congress to pass a law organizing Territorial
Governments for New Mexico & California and prohibiting the introduction of Slavery
in said Territories.
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January 23, 1849
Refer to the committee of the whole House having in charge the subject matter to which the petition refers.
Refer to the committee of the whole House having in charge the subject matter to which the petition refers.
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Mr. Putnam
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Mr Putnam
Printed Document Signed, 2 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB,