Petition is supplicationit is entreatyit is prayer!

Petition is the language of want, of pain, of sorrow, of man in all his sad variety of woes, imploring relief, at the hand of some power superior to himself.

And your petition was repelledWas it so? BUTLER.

The petition of the pirates is so curious a production, and so characteristic of the Chinese, that it deserves to be inserted at length.

The election in St John was a sufficient evidence of the strength of the democratic element there; and their petition to Governor Carleton is a sufficient evidence of their illiteracy.

This comprehensive Petition is the most humble, as well as the most prudent, that can be offered up from the Creature to his Creator, as it supposes the Supreme Being wills nothing but what is for our Good, and that he knows better than ourselves what is so.

And your petition was repelledWas it so? BUTLER.

In 1838 Calhoun introduced resolutions declaring that petitions relative to slavery in the District were "a direct and dangerous attack on the institutions of all the slave-holding States."

The branch society is in Lierre (a town occupied by the Germans), and the petition is a statement of Flemish national and language aspirations.