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To the Legislature of the State of Maine.

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THE undersigned, Females of the State of Maine, being deeply grieved at the passage of a resolve, at the late Session of Congress, by the House of Representatives, whereby it was declared – “That no petition, memorial, resolution, or other paper, praying the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia , or any State or Territory in the United States, in which it now exists, shall be received by this House, or entertained in any way whatever;” and believing said resolve to be an infringement of the Constitution of the United States, and an abridgement of the freedom of speech, and of the right of petition, pray your honorable body to request our Representatives in Congress, to use their utmost influence to have the same rescinded.

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Names.

-Sally M Smith

-Hannah S Warren

-Lydia C Pease

-Caroline Mosher

-Mary Foss

-Maria Newbegin

-Dorcas Libby

-Prudence Abbot

-Mary S Phenia[?]

-Joan[?] Phenia[?]

-Nancy Foss

-Louisa Cooledge

-Frances Foss

-Emeline Brown

-Rosana Butters

-Mehitable[?] Butters

-Ellen J[?] Mann

-Betsey Mugford

-Mary J[?] Mugford

-Susan M Sate

-Maria F Allen

-Angeline Brown

-Sarah Sawyer

-Lucinda Goolde

-Lucy A Whitten

-Martha Grott[?]

-Mercy Nason

-Sarah Dinsmore

-Caroline Mayberry

-Olive S Stetson

-Jane Libby

-Betsey N Boynton

-Mary J[?] Tarbox

-Mary S Roberts

-Susan Higgins

Names.

-Elizabeth Woodman

-Mary A Moody

-Rachael A Grafton

-Mehitable[?] Edwards

-Harriet Stetson

-Sarah Manchester

-Susan B. Mosher

-Rebecca Libby

-Margaret Cates

-Ellen R Schillings

-Nancy Skillings

-Jane Grott[?]

-Olive W Hancock

-Ellen B Jordan[?]

-Sarah Bragdon

-Eunice Libby

-Mary Coolbroth

-Harriet Libby

-Susan Davis

-Marie Atkinson

-Sarah Whitman

-Sarah Leavitt

-Hannah Hall

-Hannah Nason

-Emily Libby

-Dorcas Brown

-Abba[?] M Brown

-Sarah A Brown

-Susan B Brown

-Margaret Brown

-Doircas Worthley

-Margaret Trafton

-E. Y.[?] Trafton

-Nancy Partridge

-Nancy Muzeh[?]

-Mary D[?] Plummer

-Caroline Plummer

-Mary A Andrews

-Mary A Gammon

-Pamela C Wood

-Jane S Stetson

-Catharine B Pease

-Emma Larrabee

-Jane A Stephens

-Jane B Robinson

-Jane Haskell

-Elisabeth K Berry

-Jane L. Stevens