A View of the Action of the Federal Government in Behalf of Slavery volume 2
A View of the Action of the Federal Government in Behalf of Slavery volume 2
William Jay
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But this right has been most audaciously nullified by both branches of the National Legislature. The Senate have not, it is true, avowedly re- fused to receive anti-slavery petitions, but they have adopted a course which answers the same purpose. The practice for some years past has been to lay the question of reception on the table without deciding it, and the petition not being in fact received, cannot be discussed, nor any measure respect- ing it taken. This course is no less at variance wit...h the * The two Senators from Now- York, Messrs. Wright and Tallmndgo, po- litical friends of Mr, Van Buren, supported the bill. It is due to justice to mention, that the bill was finally lost by the votes of several southern Sena- tors. 82 FREEDOM OF DEBATE. constitutional rights of the petitioners, than it is with those of the members of the Senate. The rights of petition and freedom of debate are both nullities, if the body to which a prayer is addressed, is prohibited from listening to it, and the individual members are prohibited from noticing it.
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