Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-01-06
NUMBER 90.
Anti-Slavery Petitions.
To EACH FRIEND OF LIBERTY IN THE UNI
TED STATES:

with the annexed forms of Petitions and then
act efficiently in the premises.
1t is believed that the friends of Freedom
cannot do better service to the sacred cause
than by petitioning the National Legislature
from all parts of the country respecting these
great objects. The reflex influence of such
petitions will be obvious to every rejecting
mind. 1t will lead to conversation, public
discussion, newspaper essays, public meetings,
supplications to the Almighty, and sympathy
for the enslaved.
| For several years past there has been re-
taxation among the friends of the slave, in
this department of effort 1t is believed that
now is the time to resume pettioning with
augmented effort We invoke the aid, there
fore, of every friend of the slave, of every An
ti-slavery citizen, of every true hearted Amer.
lean, in this work of humanity and patriotism.
Let earnest efforts be made to awaken our cit
liens to the momentous Importance of the
present crisis, and to unite them in one loud
and urgent demand on their Representatives
to grant the prayers of our petitions.
Does the reader ask, what can l do? l
answer:
/. Call together few intelligent and &C
tive friends of the cause, and read to them
this Circular, and the annexed forms of Pc
titions.
2. Adopt prompt and systematic measures
to have each citizen called upon for his sigma
ture.
8. Seperate these forms Of Petitions, and
attach each to sheet of paper properly ruled
4. Get those who can bedepended on to cir
culate the Petitions, and procure the signature
of every citizen to each of them.
| 5. Have the Petitions collected and trans
mitted as soon as possible, with letter sign
ed by few prominent constituents, to the
Member of Congress from your District or
State. The paper should be folded for fling,
with an endorsement stating that it is the Pc
tition of--Citizens Of, with the
date.
6. Get the Circular and Petitions inserted
in all the newspapers and magazines in your
County. Request the editors to advocate the
prayer of the Petitions during the whole ses-
sion of Congress.
Z. Get suitable persons to write for the
newspapers, and correspond with the friends
of the cause throughout your County and
State.
s. Petition your Legislature, and try to in
f1uence the Members to right action at the
present crisis.
8. Please mail a copy of each of the news
papers in your County that publishes the
Circular and Petitions, or either of them TO
Lewis Tappan, Cor. Sec, 4s Beekman Street
I W. TT,lo ho r,ct,
Office, the postage must be prepaid.
Doubtless other matters will suggest them
selves to you.
These forms of Petitions arc prepared and
circulated, not for any design to dictate to the
friends of Liberty the particular topics and
modes of petition, nor because it is desired to
secure minute uniformity in the Petitions
but solely because some forms are requisite,
aud because frequent requests have been made
to the Secretary, to prepare and circulate some
forms. The friends in each locality can amend
them, or substitute others, if thought best.
LEWIS TAPPAN, Con. Sec.
1Ans and Foreign ARti-tSiavery Society,
| As BEEKMAN STREET. ". Y. Dec. 1853.
The following are the forms of the several
petitions alluded to in the foregoing, which
it is desired should be circulated in every
neighborhood. Each should be heoded.--
"To the Senate and House Of Representa-
tires"
No. l.
For Repeal Of the Fugitive La,c y
The undersigned, citizens of
County of IN the State Of
respectfully and earnestly pray
your Honorable Bodies, to repeal the Act Of
Congress passed on the 18th day of Septcm-
Der, 1850, commonly called the Fugitive Slave
Act.
No. 2.
For the Prohibition Of Slavery an National
Territories.
The undersigned citizens of
County of in the State Of
respectfully and earnestly pray
your Honorable Bodies to prohibit Slavery
and the Slave Trade in all the National Ter
ritories belonging to the United States, and
wheresoever else they might exist within the
Constitutional jurisdiction Of the Federal Gov
eminent.
No. 3.
For tie Abolition Of iSlavery in the District
Of Columbia.
The undersigned citizens Of
County of in the State Of
respectfully and earnestly pray
you Honorable Bodies to abolish Slavery in
the District of Columbia.
No 4.
| To Prohibit the Interstate SLAVE Trade.
The undersigned citizens of
County of in the State of
respectfully and earnestly pray
your Honorable Bodies to prohibit the inter
nal Slave Trade between the Slaves States OF
this Union, whether by land or sea.
No. 5.
against Paying for the Anristad Negroes.
The undersigned citizens of
County of In the State OF
respectfully represent to your
Honorable Bodies, in regard to the claim
made upon the General Government by the
alleged owners of the Amistad Negroes, who