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Adams said, that even admitting the object of the petitioners is abolition, as has been alleged, they had the right to petition for that too; for every individual in the country had a right to be an abolitionist.
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Seward asserts that all individuals have the right to petition for abolition, regardless of the petitioners' intentions.
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