Senate Unpassed Legislation 1884, committee on public service - leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Edwin G. Walker

Petition subject: Racial Discrimination Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763618 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Selected signatures:Edwin G. WalkerHoward L. Smith Total signatures: 2 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, per H.L.S., president Sumner National Independent League in behalf of the colored citizens of Massachusetts, secretary, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: to request Governor George D. Robinson to recommend to the governors of the several states in the Union, the propriety of the respective magistrates submitting to their states' legislatures, a special message asking these bodies to adopt at once a law as will give to all citizens of their commonwealths, regardless of nativity race or color, equal rights before the law, bondage, serfs, ignorance, degraded, relief, joint resolution, a Civil Rights Law, 13th amendment, 14th amendment, 15th amendment, constitution, supreme court, reconstruction, Charles Sumner, [additional documents include copy of correspondence from February 10, 1830 from Harrison Gray Otis, mayor of the city of Boston, to the governor of Virginia on the pamphlet of David Walker, Edwin G. Walker's father with copy of note from William B. Giles, slaveowners, Mason Dixon line, Richmond Enquirer, mayor of Savannah, Georgia], [\"...there exists today a lack of respect for your petitioners that makes every moment of their being an existence of deep depression, yea, of anguish, not comprehended by those who are not its subject...\"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1884, committee on public service - leave to withdraw 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.