... votes. The next election resulted in the elevation of Mr. Lincoln, the present incumbent, to the Presidency of the United States. The first Abolition petitions to Congress were a memorial of Quaker s, praying the abolition of the slave trade, presented by Mr. Fitzsimmons, of Pennsylvania, on the 11th of February, 1790, and a memorial to the same effect of Quakers, of New York city, presented by ...