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4. Speech of Henry Clay, of Kentucky, on certain resolutions offered to the Senate of the United States, in December, 1837, by Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina : involving principles of interpretation of the Constitution of the United States : the subject of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia and the territories of the United States : and the right of petition on that subject : delivered in the Senate U.S., January 9, 1838.

5. Speech of John Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, upon the right of the people, men and women, to petition; on the freedom of speech and debate in the House of representatives of the United States; on the resolutions of seven state legislatures, and the petitions of more than one hundred thousand petitioners, relating to the annexation of Texas to this Union. Delivered in the House of representatives of the United States, in fragments of the morning hour, from the 16th of June to the 7th of July 1838, inclusive.