Jeffrey A. Denman

Adams was about to find out how serious the petition process was to become on the floor of the House. By early February, Henry Pinckney...

The new year began like the old year went out—with more controversy. And it began with Adams. On January 4, 1836, he presented the...

The next day, Henry Wise, alluding to Adams’s remarks, reasserted that Congress had no right to abolish slavery in the District of...