2. Memorial to the Congress of the United States on the Subject of Restraining the Increase of Slavery in New States to be Admitted to the Union. Prepared in Pursuance of a Vote of the Inhabitants of Boston and Its Vicinity, Assembled at the State House, on the Third of December, A. D., 1819 (Boston: Sewell Phelps, 1819). (22 p.)


Petition objecting to the extension of slavery into states organized from territory obtained as a result of the Louisiana Purchase.