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�To the Honorable, the Legislature of the State of Maine
The inhabitants of Bucksport in the County of
Hancock Respectfully pray your honorable body, to adopt resolutions declaring:
1. That Congress has the constitutional Power to abolish slavery and the slave
trade, in the District of Columbia.
2. That it has the constitutional power to abolish therein the several Territories
of the Union, where they exist.
3.That it has the constitutional power to prohibit the slave trade between the
several States of the Union.
4. That, in regard to all these particulars, Congress ought immediately to
exercise that power.
We also pray your honorable body, to send a copy of said resolutions to each of
the Senators and Representatives of this State in
Congress, to be by them laid before that body;--to the Governors of the several
States, to be by them laid before their respective
legislatures; and to the President of the United States.
We further pray your honorable body, to instruct the Senators, and request the Representatives, of this State, in Congress, to use
their utmost influence, for the immediate abolition of slavery and the slave trade in
the District of Columbia, and in those Territories
of the Union where they exist;--and also for the immediate prohibition of the slave
trade between the several States.
[2 columns of signatures separated by a vertical line] Phineas Higgins Thomas Swazey Lathly Lewis Charles Parnlet Henry Silsby Sullivan Bray Stephen Peabody Abner Bray Nehemiah Rocssett[?] Weston Curtis O Barnard Asa Curtis C Barnard Salomon H Amy Joseph Smith Stephen Bland Mary W Smith[name lined out] Lohpth Smith Lorenzo D Wardwell David Millburn Samuel Farlon Edward Stubbs Amos G. Card Samuel Stubbs Daniel Shofford Philemon Griffin Rich d[superscript] P Buck David Eldridge Joseph R Folsom Joseph L Elanidge Jr Henry D Brandteman Jona Cobb Solomon Skinner William Ballard Loring Skinner Theophilus Aney Benjamin Swett Bange Duane Henry Darling Mighill Blood