Passed Resolves; Resolves 1844, c.87, SC1/series 228, Petition of Ralph Waldo Emerson

<p>Petition subject: 3 items: no slavery, especially not without due process; no discrimination; to define rights on railroads to prevent insulting or assaulting </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10455880">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10455880</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Concord </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Anthony Wright, Concord; committee on the amendment to the Constitution </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Ralph Waldo Emerson</li><li>Lidian J. Emerson</li><li>Ruth Emerson</li><li>Eliza H. Gallup</li><li>John Garrison</li><li>Francis Bigelow</li><li>William Whiting</li><li>Anne M. Whiting</li><li>Helen Thoreau</li><li>Cynthia Thoreau</li><li>John Thoreau</li><li>Peter Hutchinson</li><li>Nancy Hutchinson</li><li>Jane Thoreau</li><li>Maria Thoreau</li><li>Mary Blanchard</li><li>Prudence Ward</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1844-02-06,1844-02-07 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 6, 1844 and referred to the committee on the amendment to the Constitution and received in the Senate on February 7, 1844 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 259 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 91 </p> <p>Female signatures: 153 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 15 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["others"] </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>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Includes notes next to signatures </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1844, c.87, passed March 15, 1844 </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>