Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to the Committee on Judiciary during the 37th Congress

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Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to the Committee on Judiciary during the 37th Congress

1861-1863

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This file unit contains records relating to the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia (HR37A-G7.1); the abolition of slavery in the United States, including a petition from citizens of Iowa for emancipation (HR37A-G7.2); advice to Congress "to drop the Negro question and attend to the business of the country" (HR37A-G7.3); admission of West Virginia into the Union (HR37A-G7.4); bankruptcy law (HR37A-G7.5); claims (HR37A-G7.6); honorable compromise of the difficulties between the States (HR37A-G7.7); Crittenden Compromise (HR37A-G7.8); Federal courts and judges (HR37A-G7.9); Floyd's acceptances (HR37A-G7.10); repeal of the fugitive slave law (HR37A-G7.11); national convention of the States for the peaceful adjustment of the difficulties between the North and South (HR37A-G7.12); confiscation of the property and liberation of the slaves of persons supporting the rebellion (HR37A-G7.13); passage of a law calling upon all citizens, both bond and free, to aid the Government in suppressing the rebellion (HR37A-G7.14); reduction of the states of South Carolina and Georgia, together with a part of Florida, into a territorial condition to be colonized by Negroes freed by force of arms or by acts of Congress (HR37A-G7.15); proposed expulsion of Representative Clement L. Vallandigham of Ohio from the House of Representatives (HR37A-G7.16); and various other subjects within the committee's jurisdiction (HR37A-G7.17).

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Vallandigham, Clement Laird, 1820-1871

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Clement Laird Vallandigham was born July 29, 1820, in New Lisbon, Ohio (now Lisbon, Ohio), to Clement and Rebecca Laird Vallandigham. His father, a Presbyterian minister, educated his son at home. In 1841, Vallandigham had a dispute with the college president at Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. He was honorably dismissed, but he never received a degree. Edwin M. Stanton, the future Secretary of War under President Lincoln, was Vallandigham's close friend before the Civil War....