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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 121

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Instead of any embarrassment or humiliation because of his apparent demotion, Mr. Adams met only respect. He was at once placed on the committee of manufactures, which because of the unsettled condition of the tariff, was considered an especially impor- one.
Mr. Adams at once became the champion of anti slavery. He did not assume the role of a reformer or agitator, but he did in a legislative way what others were doing by agitation to suppress the growth of slavery. His chief work, however, lay in his insistence upon the right of petition. By presenting hundreds of petitions praying that slavery might be abolished he vexed the slavery men and a gag law was passed whereby "petitions, memorials, resolutions or paper relating in any way or to any extent to the subject of slavery or the abolition

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119 Instead of any embarrassment or humiliation because of his apparent demotion, Mr. Adams met only respect. He was at once placed on the committee of manufactures, which because of the unsettled condition of the tariff, was considered an especially impor- one. Mr. Adams at once became the champion of anti slavery. He did not assume the role of a reformer or agitator, but he did in a legislative way what others were doing by agitation to suppress the growth of slavery. His chief work, however, lay in his insistence upon the right of petition. By presenting hundreds of petitions praying that slavery might be abolished he vexed the slavery men and a gag law was passed whereby "petitions, memorials, resolutions or paper relating in any way or to any extent to the subject of slavery or the abolition