[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 224 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 224

  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress 
    should provide adequate funding to protect the integrity of the 
               Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 8, 2003

 Mr. Hastert (for himself, Mr. Blunt, Ms. Pryce of Ohio, Mr. Reynolds, 
 Mr. Weller, Mr. Kingston, Mr. Radanovich, Mr. Pombo, and Mr. Porter) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                              on Resources

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Congress 
    should provide adequate funding to protect the integrity of the 
               Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.

Whereas Frederick Douglass freed himself from slavery and through decades of 
        tireless efforts helped to free millions more;
Whereas, as a major stationmaster on the Underground Railroad, Frederick 
        Douglass directly helped hundreds on their way to freedom through his 
        adopted home city of Rochester, New York;
Whereas Frederick Douglass learned to write and do arithmetic on his own 
        initiative;
Whereas, as a publisher of the North Star and Frederick Douglass' Paper, 
        Frederick Douglass brought news of the antislavery movement to thousands 
        of people;
Whereas Frederick Douglass helped recruit African-American troops for the Union 
        Army and his personal relationship with Abraham Lincoln helped to 
        persuade the President to make Emancipation a cause of the Civil War;
Whereas, in 1872, Frederick Douglass moved to Washington, DC, where he initially 
        served as publisher of the New National Era, intending to carry forward 
        the work of elevating the position of African Americans in the post-
        Emancipation period; and
Whereas Frederick Douglass also served briefly as President of the Freedmen's 
        National Bank and subsequently in various national service positions, 
        including United States Marshal for the District of Columbia and 
        diplomatic positions in Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
Congress should provide adequate funding to protect the integrity of 
the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site.
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