Petitions in Congress, Wendell Phillips, John Quincy Adams
April 11, 1837
At a Quarterly Meeting of the MASS, held in Lynn, Wendell Phillips makes his first antislavery speech, and offers a resolution which is voted by the meeting. and sent to Garrison. “Resolved, that the exertions of John Quincy Adams, and the rest of the Massachusetts delegation who sustained him in his defence of the citizens’ right of petition, deserve the deepest gratitude and the warmest admiration of every American.” 1