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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC08932 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | Memorial to Congress, Adopted at a Meeting of Citizens at the Rooms of the Chamber of Commerce |
| Date | 18 January 1861 |
| Author | Booth, William A. (fl. 1861) |
| Document Type | Government document |
| Content Description | Signed in print by William A. Booth as committee chair and twenty seven other New Yorkers. The memorial, printed a few months before the outbreak of the Civil War, was made in an effort to maintain peace. It appointed a committee that met on 26 January 1861 to make recommendations for "compromise" with the rebel states. That committee called for capitulation to the South on the issue of slavery. They proposed amendments to the Constitution limiting federal power over slavery and its extension into territories below the line of the Missouri Compromise. Also asserts that the Fugitive Slave law should be obeyed, that the proscription on the importation of slaves should be strictly enforced, and an act should be passed to punish inter-state/territory "marauding expeditions." |
| Subjects | US Constitution Civil War Military History Petition African American History Slavery US Constitutional Amendment Westward Expansion Missouri Compromise Fugitive Slave Act Runaway Slave Law Guerrilla Warfare Slave Trade |
| People | Booth, William A. (fl. 1861) |
| Place written | New York |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Government & Politics; Slavery & Abolition |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |