DOI: 10.7910/dvn/5ebnq8
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1873, H 141 adopted resolutions, SC1/series 230, Petition of John Greenleaf Whittier

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Charles Sumner resolution &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763665"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763665&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joshua B. Smith, Cambridge; committee on federal relations &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Greenleaf Whittier&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James T. Fields&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Gridley Howe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peleg W. Chandler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel E. Sewall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;W.D. Howells [William Dean Howells]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John S. Dwight&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Sturgis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Claflin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;W.R. Alger [William R. Alger]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Oliver Wendell Holmes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;E.P. Whipple [Edwin Percy Whipple]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I. Ingersoll Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard Henry Dana Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;G.S. Hillard [George Stillman Hillard]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry L. Peirce&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George B. Emerson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josiah Quincy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles E. Wiggin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles A.B. Shepard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George T. Angell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1873-02-20,1873-02-20 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1873 and referred to the committee on federal relations with instructions to give the petitioners and remonstrants a hearing and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 20, 1873 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 28 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 28 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"] &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: To rescind and annul the censure of Charles Sumner for resolution on Civil War battle honors on regimental flags &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1873, H 141 adopted resolutions &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;