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A Memorial of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama to the General Assemblies of the several States of the Union. 1835 174 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0192 and id is 1 raw text is: 174 a Railroad Company, for the purpose of connecting the Tennessee Valley with the waters of the Mobile Bay. That said road will run through a part of the State, in which the United States are the owners of a greater portien of the land. That said lands on account of their sterility, have not been sold at the minimum price of the government lands. Your inemorialists think it unnccessary to enter into an argument to show the necessity of a right of ownership in the company to a portion of those lands. Your memorialists would therefore respecthully ask your honora. ble body to pass a law, authorizing said company to condemn for their own use, lands to the distance of three niles on each side of the line of said Railroad, wher- ever the same may belong to the Uniited States;-and that your honorable body would point out the mode of assessing the value ot said lands and direct, where the price, when assessed shall be deposited to tie caedit of the United States. Resolved, That the Governor he requested to send to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress a copy of the foregoing mcmorial, Approved, Jan .'9, 1836. JOINT NMI St t R I A L, I to te Co nre q o% t nit ied St itI . requetin n rnu fo I n ud iint for each township wthervin ti AIxi'teoth iretilol thave proved valueleF.mt ir hine been Inticu by Indini reservations. Tur, memorial of the Legislature of the State of A labana to the Congress of the United States: respectfully represents to your ionorable'holy: that there is a large portion of the ilizens of their state ntirlydepii ved of tile henefits Of an :.: t of Congress granting tle sixteenth section of each township to tile use of the inhiabi- tants of the snute fot lilerary p1urposes, in consequenco of said sixteenth sectjons proving entirely valieless; and that generally in the poorer parts of the State, where the inhnhitants mostly Stland in need of the benefits of donation. And whereas, also, in that portion of territory recently nequired, by treatics with the Creek and Chocktaw Indiatns, mian\y of the sixtectli sectiois thus appropriated, have been ta- ken bty reservations alloted to the Indi-ans by ,aill treaties: and thus many townships, in the State deprived of the honefits of said act. Your tnemorialists therefore re- spectfully represent to your honorable body the justice Mnd l prolwUety of allowing the inhabitants in each :111d every township iI th State, where the sixteenth scL- tions have proved valueless, or- been taken by such reservations, to relinquish the same, and in licu thereof to select one other section from, any unappropriated lands in this State to lie appropriated to the specilc object of literary instruction in the township for which the selection was made, and as in duty bound, your memorial- ists will ever pray. Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to nse their host endeavors to procure the passage of a law of Congress embracing tie object of the foregoing memorial. Resolved, That His Execllency the Governor of this State he requested to for- ward one copy of this joint memorial and resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Approved ,lan. 9, 1836. A MIOIRIAL ofthe Cenieral .ssenblyof the Stait if Atahama to the General Assemblies of the several States of the Union. Youn memorialists approach your honorable bodies with that confidence and good will which should characterize sisters of the same family. The hostility which a small portion of your population have shown to the happiness and safety of our country, is not believed to have eminated from a settled intention of your citizens -toedo us an injury. The dark, deep, and malignant designs of the Abolitionists, who are settled amongst you, in sending to our couptry their agents and incendiary pamphlets and publications, lighting up fires of discord in thL bosoms of our slave puulation, have never, for a moment alienated our affections from the great mass oyour citizens;-and we have believed, and still believe, that when you were ful- Jy apprised of the evils, which this unholy hand of cowardly assassins was bringing

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