The Arkansas advocate., 1832-01-18

evs ~.ss* Sss *zsttstsfg n - -F- tsss s Drayton, Vance, Blair, of S. c. Mitchell, of Maryland, Speiglt, Adair. and Ward. Copsniffee o's Naoat .1Fairs. Messrs. lHeiIman, Carson, White, of New York l Andersen, Branch, Milligan, and Wat meugh-
 I Coamittee on Iadicn .4Beirs.-M Messrs il Bell. Lewis, Thompson, of eeorgia. An gel, Storrs, Mason, and Lecompte 1 C'ommHee on .Nuaayaetares-hl Ad- ans. Lewis Condiet, Findlay. Horn Day. an, Warrington, and Barbour, of Y a.
 Gonsntittee on.4gricaltura.-M essrs Root, Mccoy, ofNa. Smith, of Penn. Chandler. Jenifer, Wheeler, and 1ompkins Committee on the Judiciary Messrs Da4 wis, of $. q. Ellsworth, Daniel, White, of Lou. Foster, Gordon, and Bcardsley.
 Conenalttee forthe District of Coium6ia.-- Messrs. Doddridge, Washing ton, semnes, Armstrong, Thomas, of Md. Mccoy, of Pa. and Ciiinn.
 sSs.,:.ss::sss53!ts,ee or the Post Office and Post Roads.-Messrs. Johnson, of Ky. Conner, Russell, Pearce, Jewett, Johnson, of a.. and Newhall.
 Committee on Prtoate Land Ctaims.- Messrs. Johnson, of Tenn. Coke, Stanber- Try. Mardis, Marshall, Carr, of Indiana, and Bullard.
 | Commtaee onthe Public Lands.-- Messrs. l Wiekliae, Duncan, Hunt, Irwin, Clay, l Boon, and Hummer. I Conmflsee on Revolutionary C}aims.-- ] Messrs. Muhlenherg, Nuckolls, Bouldin, Crane, Bates, of Mass. Hammons, and 1 Standifer.
 Coaentifiae oa Ieeoiutioaarg Pessions.--- Messrs. Hubbard, Isaacs, Mitchell, of $. .. Denny, Pendleton, Doubleday, snd KaYanaugh.
 Conlali1ee on fnpdlid Pensions iessrs. Bnrges, Ford, Evans, of Maine, Reed, of New-Y ork, Appleton, Lansing, and Soath- ard.
 Coaamutee on Pubiic Eappuaauyes. = tiessrs. lail, of N. C. Davenport, Lyon, Thomson, of Ohio, Coulter, piersen, and Henry King.
 1 Commillac on tke 1'ersifoTies.-~AIessrs. Kerr, of Ad. Creighton, ". !. Shepard, Williams. of N (. Huntington, Allen, of Ky. and Roanc.
 Committee of .4ccoants.--Messre. Allon, of Va. Busd, and Bergen. l Comniittee on Re8isai and Unfnfshed Basiness.-Messr Reed, ef Mass. l. en- uon, and Fsoule.
 Comali1iee oa Cope zditnresin the IYeasu- ] ay Dfparfaent.- Stephens, Ward fweli, and Fitzgerald. ] tompii!see op Egpendtf1res iR Be Tor i Beaseiua ii.-- -Atessrs. 4. II. Shepperd, Mann, and fslder.
 senasittee oil ErpeAdauqes m Abe Sfaet l DepartmeAt.--siesaEs. Leut. Evans, Of Pa. ana Mckay.
 CaDaaiit4e aa Eependitares ef Public BaitIlags 1essre. Young, Spence. and l Tracy.
 Coaamitlse Qf Erpendaares ia he Poa Cfiee.--4lesars Hawes, Rates, of Maine, and 3roadbead, of x. ' 1 CommiAee oa Expenditures n the -Nauy i Dspaftmeat.-Messrs. Maxwell, uail, of i i fem. and Harpei. l This being the first day of the session for presenting petitions, d great nun,- Der were presented, of which we will endeayer to furnish . list hereafter, to l give our readers some idea of the nature of the many wants and wishes oi the People.
 Among others
 Mr. ADAMS. ol Massachusetts. (the Ex- President of the United States) pre- scented fifteen petitions, all numerousiy subscribed, from snndry inhabitants oi Pennsylvania, all of the same purport, praying for the abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Go lumbia. and moved that the first of them should he read; and 1t was read accor- T dingl,.
 l Mr. ADAMS then observed that it had I doubtless been remarked that these pc titions came not from Massachusetts, z portion of whose people he had the honor 10 represent, but from citizens o I the State of Pennsylvania. lie had re ceived the petitions many months ago with a request that they should be pre- sented by him, and, although the -peti- tioners were not of his immediate con. EstitAents, he had not deemed himself al ! liberty to decline presenting their peti. tions, their transmission of which 10 hin manifested confidence in him fol which be was bound to be grateful.-- l l IErcs.. letter which had accompanicd those petitions, he inferred that the, came from members of the Society O 1 Friends; body of men than whom 7 there was no more respectable and wor 'l thy class of citizens, none who more strictly made their lives commentar, | on their professions-a body of mel comprising,in his firm opinion, as mucl Of human virtue, and as little of humal infrmity, as any other equal number 0 men of any denomination upon the fac, of the globe.
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