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Joint Preamble and Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, in favor of the annexation of Texas to the United States of America. 1837 129 (1837.11)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0209 and id is 1 raw text is: tuilln6aith the stbid n exeli pr yigilace on all uccasions, logether with their &nediale presene, ilapir us wit 6oifideice tait put iuan ore is oeceasary. :Thefir pitto W *HJ51 vehyild respecfully but seriously draw your wttention, i4 tle inipuratstt glitiodrib ion r J lieo 4ciuld stlers. This grapt of privilege, frunt the filnmrous procedensts itiits Ra~dtbnay'bo'said oiifave almost bac6gno ti1e settled policy of the Geierul G,vermuent, and we I rib bje thatihould weigh a foealtr with a lilloral mind, to inakiig it the sibject of a I . b lte land, confining it to those who actually occupy anil cultivate tie linds pIac . aginoral aw of this kind 4ituild not receive favor, permit us to urge that this privilege ext6nded,'at leastto the ciditin inlabitii list- Cherokee purchuse and the unsuld lands itn tite tid Choetaw puarchases, so far as tljey lie whiu the limits of this State. As ititimately nnect. ed with t e jo t, permit us to suggest the propriety of restrainig all future sales of tie pu11blie dlotmtaiMn, exeopt'o , ettii settlers and cultivators of the body of lands purchased. This course wouild vxercike a sRluhy hti u dover those who should he disposed, as tu many have done, to itvest all their capital, whbth dtiiul or b6rrotood, in the purchase of large qitantities ofland, to the exclusior and ditriuscan of otldr great aid important intres inl uir courtry. ih next subject to which we would oblu; your cotnsideration, is that of a gradual rdution of the minhim price demanded for the public lands, after they have been in rnarket for several years. letter evidence cinnot be ofiered ofthe correctness ofstuch a courae ofr policy, thanf the fact that the lands are not purchased at the present prite. ft is true, this is not conclusive evidence, for the first fw years after the lands are offered, but after the lapse of soveral years, it doce amount to demnstraition, that their re. lative value does ndt equal the tminimum demanded. This subject has been before Coigrvss ahually for many years, and no doubt it has boon thoroughly investigated. It is therefore diee d .1niltus on the present ocaslon, to do more than to invite a reconsideration of it at the present sosnioin, j:i tht siit of calm deliberation and expanded patriotism, which should ever characterize American statesmn. We would also present another subject of great importance to us and of minor interest to thie residue of the United States. There are within our State vast bodies ofaterile lands, which never will be inhabi. te, unless it be done as the result of slicer necessity or of sotme adventitions inducements. The General Government can never realize one cent per acre for it, and yet the State Government, if it had entire conlrtil overit, might cause considerable advantage to the whole body politic, by enciuraging its settle. melt by ifdtustrious citizens, who would reclaim portions of it at least, frotm its presnt harrin state, aid render it sueervient to the purposed of private happiness, aund thernhy conduicive to the aggrandizement of the Commpnwcalth. We would therefore respectfully request, that all laids within the lintits of ithis State, which have been in the murket for years or upwards, may be relinuish. d unicodiutonally to the State Government. Your momprialists would further represent unto your honorable bodies, that the uuiicent grant itade upon the admission of this State into the Union, for the purpuses of courinott shools, has in manv town- ships, almost entirely failed in effecting any thing towards the mcritoriius object in vicw of the (eniieral Government, on account of the particular section, designated by tnber, withour exmtimation or re- ferene to Its quality, proving to be sterile and nerly worthless. 'This has been th, lict to, most usual. ly in townships where such a fund is more neeiled, ii misequence of the gretitur uimber of children to he educated and the more Ilinited means of their i)aents. For the purpose therefor it cnusutmniating the origihal'dsign of the grant in question, we would respectfully ask %our honorable bodies to author. ize an exchange ofany sixteenth section that is nearly worthicsi, fur somue other unappr-riated seition, to be selected any %9here in the State. Be it resolved by the Senatie and House of Rpprpae''iatives ofthe State of. Ilabwumo in General As. se~ibly convened, That our Senators ttnd Represeitauives in Congres4 be ireusuted to use thir exer. tions to obtain the end pointed out in the foregoing itumnorial, and that they be repioted is present said memorial to their respective Houses of Congress. And be it further resolved, That the Governor of this Stre. be requested to trunnermmu a copy of the foregoing iemorial and resolution to each of our Seniators and Repr-eeitatives in (oingress. Approved, 1)ecnnther TI3, 18-37. joINr PREAMBLE AN) RESOLUTIONS of the Geteral Assembly of ite Sante n i-of Alahatia. itn favor of the annexation of Texas to the United States of Atmeriva. The General Assembly of the State of Alabama. have witttnetd with feelingi o' deep amortilleatifo, the course pursued by a faw citizens of the Uniteud States, in oppositioni to th Adtuissiion Of tie iN.piblic of Texas into the Federal Union. Professing, as we ever have, friendship for civil liberty, and a ihevotjin to tile holy Vauie of tn'edoin. in every clime, it was to have been hoped, that no voice would be heard amt1on11 n1A, t rebuike ai appli. cation from Texas, for admission into this boasted asylum from oppression. Our ports have beien ever open to the exile or emigrant from the eastern hemisphere; invitations and inducetents have hen ex. tended to all whose interest or inclination led them to our shores, atitd no one has ever thought of deny. ing comfort and protection to all who have fled frot tyranny in that quarter aid sought suenr tind shel. ter'beticth the extended wingaof our national eagles. liv Is polity. tiuan o the eislaved, but wur. thyand inaenanimous sotis of Ireland, of Faice, and of P1!atal. h1AW bieen enahled to teach our br. 'dera, and *'iedeormed. reset 'sted, sti .. r'r a :rei I au. ~ o w:-1 tie ftt , A: .1 9

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