MR.

ADAMS PRESENTS PETITIONS FOR THE ABOLISHMENT OF SLAVERY--OPPOSITION OF SOUTHERN MEMBERS--EXCITING SCENES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-- MARKS OF CONFIDENCE IN MR.

ADAMS.
In the meantime, during the years 1836 and 1837, the public mind in the Northern States, became fully aroused to the enormities of American slavery--its encroachments on the rights and interests of the free States--the undue influence it was exercising in our national councils--and the evident determination to enlarge its borders and its evils, by the addition of new and large territories.

Petitions for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia and the Territories, began to pour into Congress, from every section of the East and North.

These were generally presented by Mr.Adams.His age and experience--his well-known influence in the House of Representatives--his patriotism, and his intrepid advocacy of human freedom--inspired the confidence of the people of the free States, and led them to entrust to him their petitions.