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

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 122

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120 of slavery shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no farther action shall be taken thereon." This was passed in 1836 and regularly at each session Mr. Adams moved that the law be repealed. In 1845 he succeeded in getting it passed by a vote of 108 to 84. From 1836 to 1845 he had fought almost single handed for the measure. He was the object of hatred to his opponents; anonymous letters which threatened assassination were sent to him: congress wasted a great deal of time in framing bills of censure against him and at times his only comfort was the approval of his own reflections. 1 In 1835 Mr. Adams supported Jackson in his demands upon France for a payment of $5,000,000 for plunder 1. John T. Morse, John Quincy Adams
 
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