DOI: 10.7910/dvn/tnnpa
title: Passed Resolves; Resolves 1845, c.124, SC1/series 228, Petition of Soloman R. Alexander

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Treatment of Massachusetts citizens in other states &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10455884"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10455884&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1845-02-03 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James Bunker Congdon, New Bedford; committee on the annexation of Texas &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Soloman R. Alexander&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles A. Battiste&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1845-02-06,1845-02-07 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 6, 1845 and referred to the committee on the annexation of Texas and received in the Senate on February 7, 1845 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 3 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 3 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: coloured citizens of Boston, coloured men, citizens of Massachusetts, chairman, secretaries, [males of color] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Resolution, Belknap Street meeting house, Joy Street, Jonas W. Clark, Joel W. Lewis, presidents, Robert Morris Jr., Charles A. Battisste, secretaries, constitution, bill of rights, born free and equal, rights and liberties, frequently violated, imminent peril, South Carolina, Louisiana, laws, unconstitutional, atrocious, colored seamen or travelers, imprisonment, felons, sold as slaves to the highest bidder, jail fees, transported in the vessels, Samuel Hoar, Henry Hubbard, protection, borders, test the constitutionality of the slave laws, appeal, supreme court, expulsion, agents, high misdemeanor, fine and imprisonment, municipal regulations, declare war against the North, let their voices be heard in thunder tones against this most extraordinary and despotic procedure, prompt and ample redress, repeal, intended to be sacrificed on the alter of Southern jealousy and wrath, protect, persecution, personal security, appeal, freedom, independence, sovereignty, rights, yield nothing, no compromise, fierce demon of slavery, maintain free trade and sailors' rights, chairman and secretaries of this meeting, tolerent and liberal state of public feeling shall secure to them the full enjoyment of all rights which impartial laws have conferred, judicial investigation, disgraceful restraints, Southern ports, citizenship, employment, security of slave masters, distinction of color, general interests of the whole mass of citizens, that all may stand or fall together, protesting, ["...then it follows that slavery and the constitution cannot exist together..."] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1845, c.124, passed March 26, 1845 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;