Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . he rules of this house, and ofthe rights of my constituents. Notwithstanding the rule embodied inthis resolution virtually trampled the rightof petition into the dust, yet it was adoptedby t
Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . he rules of this house, and ofthe rights of my constituents. Notwithstanding the rule embodied inthis resolution virtually trampled the rightof petition into the dust, yet it was adoptedby the house, by a large majority. ButMr. Adams was not to be baffled by thisarbitrary restriction. Petitions on thesubject of slavery continued to be trans-mitted to him in increased numbers, someof them of monster size, bearing thousandsof signatures. With unwavering firmness—against a bitter and unscrupulous oppo-sition, exasperated to the highest pitch byhis unconquerable i)ertinacity — amidst a 364 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—177G-1876. perfect tempest of vitiii)oration and abuse—lie persevered, uiivanquislied, in present-ing these petitions, one by one, to theamount sonietinics of two hundred in aday, and demanding tlie attention of thehouse on each separate petition. Hisposition in these scenes, — advocating,amiilst scorn and derision, and tlireats ofexpulsion and assassination, the inalienable. U. JL. JitJuarr/iA right of petition for the poorest and hum-blest in the land,—was in the highestdegree illustrious and sublime ; a spectacleunwitnessed before in the halls of legisla-tion. On the sixth of January, 1837, presented the petition of one hun-dred and fifty women, whom he stated tobe the wives and daughters of his immcili-ate constituents, ))raying for the abolitionof slavery in the District of Columbia;and he moved that the petition be was made, whereujwn ^ remarked that, understanding thatit was not the petition itself which waslaid u
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