Published by Government Printing Office, Washington, 1856
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First Edition
Removed Document. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 34th Congress, 1st session, House Mis. Doc. No. 100; 3 pages; Removed document, clean and complete. OCLC 1065564008 Excerpt: "Resolved, That our Senators in Congress be further instructed, and our representatives requested, to use their best endeavors to secure the passage of laws prohibiting slavery in the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and all territory embraced in the Missouri Compromise, and re-establishing the original American policy as declared in the regulation proposed by Thomas Jefferson, in 1784, for the exclusionof slavery from all territory ceded, or to be ceded, and of such other laws as shall best fulfil the high duty repeatedly acknowledged by the people of Ohio, of using all power clearly given by the terms of the national compact, to prevent the increase, to mitigate, and finally eradicate the evil of slavery .".