Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the Right of Petition; The Power of Congress to Abolish Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia: The Implied Faith of the North and the South to Each Other in Forming the Constitution; And the Principles, Purposes, and Prospects of Abolition; Delivered in the House of Representatives, on the 18th and 20th January, 1840 Here, s'r, are the abstractions of abolition, embodied in the legislation of Europe and America during the last five hundred years; and yet we are told that legislative power is incom petent to the abolition of slavery! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.