To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States
Subtitle: the undersigned citizens of New York, respectfully pray to your honorable bodies to pass such laws as to put the soldiers of our army on the same footing as to bounty, pay and pensions, without regard to difference of complexion
By: Hon. Charles Sumner, Wm. D. Kelly
Series: Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom: Primary Sources from Houghton Library
Publisher: Union League Club
Published: 1864
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: African American soldiers; Armed Forces; African Americans; United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 26th; United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 20th
Notes: Caption title.

First line: Heaquarters [sic] 20th and 26th Regiments, U. S. Colored Troops, 350 Fourth Street, New York.

Includes list of Union League Club Committee members.

Addressed to: Hon. [blank] Dear Sir: The following petition, just presented in the U. S. Senate by the Hon. Charles Sumner, of Massachusetts, and to the House of Representatives by the Hon. Wm. D. Kelly, of Pennsylvania ...

List of petition signers below caption title printed in five columns.

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From the library of Charles Sumner.

Pencil annotation above first line: "Petition to Congress."