Editing Gag rule (United States) (section)

==Example of petitions presented on a single day (February 18, 1839)==
* 53 men and 23 women, of [[Livingston County, New York]], "remonstrating against the espionage in which the post office in Richmond, Virginia, and post offices in other places, are subjected, with the knowledge of the Postmaster General".
* 17 men of [[Lenox, New York]], protesting the "mob violence" against [[Amos Dresser]] (Tennessee), [[Aaron W. Kitchell]] (Georgia),<ref>{{cite news
|title=To the public
|newspaper=[[Augusta Chronicle]]
|date=November 5, 1836
|page=2
|url=https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014208/1836-11-05/ed-2/seq-2/
|first1=Ira E.
|last1=Dupress
|first2=H. H.
|last2=Tarver
|first3=Henry
|last3=Bunn
|access-date=2020-02-26
|archive-date=2020-02-26
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226144708/https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn82014208/1836-11-05/ed-2/seq-2/
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|title=Lynching a Jerseyman in Georgia
|newspaper=[[National Gazette]] (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
|date=June 24, 1836
|page=2
|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45654737/the-national-gazette/
|access-date=February 26, 2020
|archive-date=November 19, 2021
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211119015759/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/45654737/attack-on-aaron-w-kitchell/
|url-status=live
}}</ref><ref>{{cite news
|title=Princeton and Slavery
|first=Joseph
|last=Yannielli
|url=https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/princeton-and-abolition
|access-date=February 18, 2020
|publisher=[[Princeton University]]
|archive-date=February 26, 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226144710/https://slavery.princeton.edu/stories/princeton-and-abolition
|url-status=live
}}</ref> and [[Elijah P. Lovejoy]] (Illinois); the "unlawful seizure and imprisonment for eight months" of [[Trial of Reuben Crandall|Reuben Crandall]]; and that a Senator from South Carolina "declared...that, if any abolitionist come to that State, he would be hung{{sic}}, despite any government on earth".
* Petitions for the recognition of [[Haiti]] from 405 men and women of [[St. Johnsbury, Vermont]], 49 men of [[Northfield, Vermont]], 96 men and women of [[Vershire, Vermont]], 28 men of [[Walton, New York]], 26 men of [[Williamsburg, New York]], 194 men and women of [[Marlborough, New Hampshire]], 52 men of [[Landaff, New Hampshire]], 79 men and women of [[Belmont County, Ohio]],<ref>{{cite news
|via=[[newspaperarchive.com]]
|title=Petitions peresented by Mr. Slade (1 of 2)
|newspaper=[[National Intelligencer]] (Washington, D.C.)
|date=March 14, 1839
|page=2
|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/politics-clipping-mar-14-1839-1568814/
|access-date=February 26, 2020
|archive-date=February 26, 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226144710/https://newspaperarchive.com/politics-clipping-mar-14-1839-1568814/
|url-status=live
}}</ref> 204 men from various northeastern states.
[[File:Slave market of America.jpg|thumb|Slave market of America—the District of Columbia. Broadside of the [[American Anti-Slavery Society]], 1836.]]
* 9 petitions, from over 600 individuals, seeking the rescinding of the Atherton gag [see above]
* 58 petitions, from over 5,000 individuals, seeking:
** "The abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia,
** The abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia {{bracket|to be prohibited by the [[Compromise of 1850]]}},
** The prohibition of the slave trade between the states, 
** The abolition of [[History of slavery in Florida|slavery in the Territory of Florida]],
** The abolition of slavery and the slave trade in all the other territories of the United States,
** The refusal to admit any new [[slave state]] into the Union,
** The rejection of all propositions for the admission of Texas."<ref>{{cite news
|via=[[newspaperarchive.com]]
|title=Petitions peresented by Mr. Slade (2 of 2)
|newspaper=[[National Intelligencer]] (Washington, D.C.)
|date=March 14, 1839
|page=3
|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/politics-clipping-mar-14-1839-1568892/
|access-date=February 26, 2020
|archive-date=February 26, 2020
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200226144710/https://newspaperarchive.com/politics-clipping-mar-14-1839-1568892/
|url-status=live
}}</ref>

From December 1838 to March 1839, the Twenty-Fifth Congress received "almost fifteen hundred petitions signed by more than one hundred thousand people. Eighty percent of the signatories supported abolition in the capital".<ref>{{cite book
|title=Snow-storm in August : the struggle for American freedom and Washington's race riot of 1835
|first=Jefferson
|last=Morley
|publisher=[[Anchor Books]]
|year=2013
|page=246
|isbn=978-0307477484}}</ref>

It is estimated that by 1840, 415,000 petitions had been submitted to members of Congress.<ref>{{cite book
|page=80
|first=Norman K.
|last=Dann
|title=Whatever It Takes. The Antislavery Movement and the Tactics of Gerrit Smith
|location=[[Hamilton, New York]]
|publisher=Log Cabin Books
|year=2011
|isbn=9780975554883}}</ref>