Title: Pacific Appeal - April 19, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer urges his readers not to be discouraged regarding the delay in response to a recent petition sent to the Senate.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Title: Pacific Appeal - April 5, 1862
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Pacific Appeal (1862 - 188?)
The writer expresses his expectation that the law allowing African Americans to give testimony in trials concerning white citizens will pass the state legislature.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Title: Palladium of Liberty - February 28, 1844
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Palladium of Liberty (1843 - 1844)
The writer comments on a petition sent by a citizen of Ohio attempting to prevent people of mixed race to vote and/or participate in the school fund.
Description of file(s): one scanned newspaper column
Title: Weekly Advocate - January 21, 1837
Speaker or author: editor
Newspaper or publication: Weekly Advocate (1837)
The writer discussed new legislation in Congress that suggested that any "petition, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers relating to slavery or the abolition of slavery" be left un-addressed, unread, and unacknowledged.
Description of file(s): one scanned, two columned, newspaper page