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Petition subject: Against the constitutional amendment that would disenfranchise colored citizens

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018096

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Branning, Lee; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. J. Sella Martin
2. George T. Downing
3. Mark R. DeMortie
4. Charles Thompson
5. B.D. Jackson
6. W. Anderson
7. Russell Goul
8. Henry Mitchell
9. Henry Wilson
10. Peter Hawkins
11. John B. Bailey
12. J. Lockley Marshall
13. T.G. Williams
14. E.F.B. Mundrucu
15. [J.L. Ruffin?]
16. H.F. Lee
17. B.C. Gregory
18. R. Willson
19. G.F. Barreau
20. James W. Flint
21. Joseph A. Sprague
22. Jonas W. Clark
23. George W. Brown
24. William H. Miller
25. Benjamin DeShields
26. Coffin Pitts
27. Richmond Johnson
28. Thomas Lee
29. S.H. Lewis
30. Horace J. Martin
31. J.H. Colbert
32. W.H. Smith
33. J.H. Smith
34. William H. Stout
35. B.H. Glove
36. Daniel Cavalier
37. Joseph Harris
38. Nelson Perkins
39. George F. Casttell
40. Thomas Washington
41. Samuel Locke
42. John E. Robinson
43. Richard Greener
44. A.F. Clark
45. A.F. Clark Jr.
46. J.L. Ruffin
47. J.L. Marshall
48. Henry Randolph
49. Eugene Bradley
50. John F. Brown
51. R.W. Holloway
52. Joshua Brothers
53. Asa Booth
54. Nathaniel Booth
55. John W.B. Smith
56. Robert Johnson Jr.
57. Francis L. Girard
58. Edward W. Johnson
59. John W. Anderson
60. James B. Watkins
61. James B. Watkins
62. William R. Brown
63. [Charles H. Storms?]
64. J.P. Miles
65. L.A. Sampson
66. Frederick H. Johnson
67. Charles Henson
68. William H. Washington
69. Francis Watkins
70. William Redding
71. George H. Bradford
72. James H. Bradford
73. John Holley
74. James Murray
75. Louis E. Blair
76. [Littleton Wateter Bradly?]
77. Sidney Dorsey
78. John Atkins
79. George Washington
80. Charles Stewart
81. William Proctor
82. Thomas Lee
83. [Zimei Lew?]
84. Henry Tilford
85. Robert Johnson
86. John V. de Grasse
87. Joel Johnson
88. J.A. Sprague
89. William B. Savoy
90. W.H. Christopher
91. J.H. Christopher
92. P.Y. Smith
93. John L. Bailey
94. George Thompson
95. Charles Williams
96. J.R. Andrews
97. William H. Jones
98. John E. Barreau
99. Henry Bean
100. John J. Smith
101. A.B. Lee
102. Henry Z. Burckmeyer
103. Joseph Edwards
104. George Colman
105. Lawrence David
106. Joseph Harris
107. George Jones
108. James Watkins
109. D.W. Richards
110. [John Heston?]
111. Milton Multrie
112. Edward C. Day
113. William C. Nell
114. James M. Titus
115. William Thompson

Actions taken on dates: 1861-02-06,1861-02-07

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 6, 1861 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 7, 1861 and concurred

Total signatures: 118

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Males of color signatures: 118

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: undersigned, citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, colored citizens of Massachusetts, [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Reverend, heretofore felt perfectly secure in the enjoyment of the rights pertaining to such citizenship, defender of the rights of the minority when they are threatened by the actions of the majority, commissioners to Washington D.C. to represent this state in the convention there assembled, alteration of the national constitution, Virginia, disfranchises her colored citizens, The elective franchise and the right to hold office, whether Federal, State, Territorial, or municipal, shall not be exercised by persons who are in whole or in part of the African race., disenfranchisement, deeply humiliated as Americans to know that fellow countrymen could be guilty of even conceiving the injustice contained in the proposition referred to, never abused the right of franchise or any trust imposed upon us by the state

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1861, laid on the table

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.