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� Resolve and Petitions

                                                   relative to Slavery
                                                 Postpones till 1837.

                                                           1837

                                               State of Maine
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                                               Resolves respecting the
                                               abolition of Slavery
                                               and the slave trade in
                                               the District of Columbia
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Resolved That neither Congress nor the

                   Legislatures of the non slave holding 
                   states have any right to inter-
                   =fere with slavery within the
                    slave holding states.

Resolved That the right to petition

                    Congress to abolish slavery
                    and the slave trade, in the
                    District of Columbia is guaranteed
                    by the Constitution of the United
                    States.

Resolved That Congress has the right to

                    abolish slavery and the slave 
                    trade in the District of Colum-
                    =bia, but inasmuch as our
                    Senators and Representatives can