Senate Unpassed Legislation 1836, Docket 9865, SC1/series 231, Petition of Joseph Southwick

<p>Petition subject: Against the resolutions to suppress abolitionist societies and publications </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148862">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148862</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1836-03-09 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Seth Whitmarsh, Bristol; committee on so much of the Governor's Address as relates to the abolition of slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joseph Southwick</li><li>Henry E. Benson</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1836-03-10,1836-03-10,1836-03-11,1836-03-11 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 10, 1836 and referred to the committee on so much of the Governor's Address as relates to the abolition of slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 11, 1836 and concurred and received in the Senate on March 10, 1836 and laid on the table and received in the Senate on March 11, 1836 and referred to the committee on so much of the Governor's Address as relates to the abolition of slavery and sent for concurrence and concurred in the House on March 11, 1836 </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred, received, laid on the table, received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, president, secretary </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: partially heard before the joint committee of the legislature, not granted full hearing, gross invasion of the rights of citizens either to enact penal laws against them or to censure their principles and measures without allowing them to be heard fully and patiently in their defense </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9865 </p> <p>Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.</p>