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 MT. Adams, "f Massachusetts, (the Ex- fres'dsnt of the United States) presented fif- teen petitions, all numerousIy subscribed, from snndry inhabitants of Pennsylvania. all of the same purport. praying for the abolition of sla- very and the slave trade in the district of Co- 'nmbla, and moved that the first of them should be read and it was read accofdinglv. MT Adams then observed, that it kad doubtless been remarked that these petitions game not from Massachusetts, portion of whose people he had the honor to represent. out from citizens of the State of Pennsylya- ma. He had received the petitions many months, ago, with a request that they sho1la .: Gs presenled}b }by him, and although the peti. !'"ners were not of his immediate constituents. he had not deemed himself at liberty tO de.. c!'ne presenting their petitions. their transmits sion Ofwhieh to him manifested confidence !n h'm for'wAich ohe.was bound to be grate- 'io'' FromFa letter which had accompanied