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ihosa petiliOns, ho inferred that they came

 from the members of the SOciety Of FTlenos; 1; . h,,dv of men than whom there was nsI more

 r.~nectable and worthy class of citizens nnne who mo,e strictly made their lives comu1sntary on their prOIessions-A bOoy C' men cornprising: in his firm opinion, as mncn Inf human virtue, and as little of human Innr- mitv. as any other equal number el @en O' anv deuOminatiOn- upUu the face Of tHE oOe. Tine Dptitions, Mir. A! continued, q tor tw0 things the first was, the abOIitIon Ql slavery: the second, the abolition of tn

 slave trade in the District of COIumb'a.- There was a traffic in slaves carried on in tne District, of which he did not know that U might be a proper subject Of legislation ny Congress, and he, therefore, moved that the nstitiOns he had had the honor Oi presenting SnOuId be referred to the Committee on tne Affairs cf the District of Columbia, wno IwouId dispose of them as they, upon exami- nation of their purport, should deem proper and might report on the expediency ot gran ting so much of the prayer of the petitioners as referred to the abolition of the slave trade in the District. .: x,

 As to the other prayer of the petitions, the abolition by Congress of slavery in the D's- trict of c Columbia. it had occurred to him that the petitions might have been committed 10 his charge under an expectation that 1t would receive his countennnce and support. He deemed it, therefore, his duty 10 declare that it N wouId not. Whatever might be his op'n- ion of slavery in the District of C"lembls. 1t wasa subject which he hoped would not be discussed in that House; if it should be, he might perhaps assign the reasons why ne ns. could give it no countenance or support A, present, he would only say to the Hnnse, ana ] to the worthy citizens who had coinm'tted 1 their petitions to his charge, that the most ] salutary medicines, ,unduly administered, were

 the most deadly of poisons. He concluded

 by moving to refer the petitions to the Com mttee on the District of Columbia.