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a. leading the .Enelish nti.American party.
Gilmer Of Virginia also took up the oudgol
to censure John Quincy Adams iS for 'hiTh breach
Of privilege and contempt offered this House. 7"
and md YfSpS i%pTsonmeSss sso arc infinitely too
mild to 1t this case. II the ox-President be q
traitor. then hanging is the proper punishment
=. MarshalI's resolutions called the petition an
Indignlty to the House and an insult to the
The General Assembly, Of the State Of Ohio
passed tho following resolutions:
Whsreas. IL has been commnnicatcd to this
Chief Magistrate Of this. Union, and now Q Rep.
resentatye in Congress from the state OF Massa-
sentatives Of the United state a. petition from
ann american eitisens praying That Congress may
State of Ohio: That John Quincy Adams of
Massachusetts. in aiding to give publicity and
hos subjected himself to tho merited censure
and reprohension Of his countrymen..
era Assembly The House Of Si
the United States owe 1t to themselves and the
American peop.e. whose representatives they
are, to stamp the course and conduct OF tho
member from Massachusetts with the severest
mark Of its indignant disapprobation and cen.
:, The vote on Mr.. Adems's motion to assign
the petition to q special committee for consid.
GRAFTON Th ,r, stood; Yeasi ao nays; ma vs. 1SS ., all
other business of the House, was begun on Jan;
2s, ls42. and terminated on Feb. s.. Marshall
Of South Carolina led tho onslaught against
him, and Underwood OF Kentucky. Botts OF Nir-
ginia, md Arnold OF Tennessee spoke in hs i fa,
the table without deciding a single point. The
expenses Of tho House during the time thus
In the middle Of the following April Camp.
bell OF South Carolina, whose constituents had
snS in
saulte OF the anti slavery press, again took up
the attention OF the House by addressing It on
reopen the question, and the incident passed
Two years after this a. singular incident in the
q the Haverhil petition. again called the atten.
tion of the South, and indeed, Of the entire coun-
son of "Black Ben. had before this been married
to Bradford woman, ono of whose uncles, named
before and had settled there and had become a
man OF property and-a stakeholder Some
quest OF his wife, had written to this Uncle Cot
and inviting him, should he ever visit the North,
to make their home his own.
Whether owing to the odium which had
come to rest upon the name of Emerson OF Hay-
erhll or not j. not known, but the En- ersons ,,,g
never heard of their uncle and 1t was not until
the spring of 1874 that Charles Emerson was
surprised to receive letter from Mr.. Bull Of
Ing him that Mr Cottle had died short time
before, and that he. Bull. had been appointed
Sda d the estate ny the na rho soe
trace Of any consisted of the letter written by
Charles Emerson to him several years before.
wife. The estate consisted Of about $4,000 in
realty, something less in personal property. and
chiidren. The attorneys letter concluded
with an urgent request to Mr.. Emerson to pay
q visit to the South and establish his claim to
The Information contained in the letter was
quickly communicated by Charles Emerson to
his wife. At their re luest he Visited Augusta,
established his and their claims to the property.
and made preparations to wind up the estate:
But grave question now confronted him-what
an Emerson of HeyeFhlls an sbolitonist, and and
drawn up the Haverhill petition. was a part
owner In the persons OF nine slaves, and the
estate must be settled.
North. quickly realized his predicament, and
the South laughed with gglee a! the Yankee Sn7lt
Ben" and his fellow aboltiorists of the North
urged him and the other heirs to lose no time in
o he ths has
were above such petty and mereenary m motives .ive e
In the ss summer @ Of Of 1874 Emerson received a
G1mmnnication from % ~ the anti slavery society OF
leaf Whittier the Quaker poet, were, members:
This communication appealed to the heirs Of
Mr.. Cottle to set FREQ the nine, slaves who had
appeal. 1t is a melancholy fact that the slaves.
with the exception Of one. q boy named Elliott.
to tho indignation of the abolitionists. This act
due not to the Emersons. indeed, for the
voices of Charles Emerson and his father were
strong in protest, but by reason Of the fact that
the husband Of one OF the daughters. tho sister
of Mrs. Emerson, refused to give his assent to
emancipation. and favored the sale OF tho
slaves. This man is living at an advanced age:
Elliott COttle the boy, was brought North and
the Emerson family around the house In Havcr-
hill. but finally went to California at the time
of the discovery OF gold In S49 and was never
afterward heard of.