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Preamble and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama. 1841 19 (1841.4)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0284 and id is 1 raw text is: JOINT RESOLUTIONS AND MEMORIALS. PREAMBLE AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS, Of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama. WHEIREAs' it is provided. in the second section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States, that a person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on deinand of the exccutive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be reiioved to the State having jurisdic, tion of the crime: and whereas, certain citizens of the State of New York have becit duly charged, by afhidavit, regularly made before a qualified ma- gistrate of the Commonwealth of Virginia, with having feloniously stolen and carried away from that Commonwealth, a negro slave, the property of a citizen of Virginia, and have lied from justice, and taken refuge in the State of Now York: and whereas, the executive authority of Virginia has repeat- edly demanded of the executive authority of New York, the surrender and delivery of' the persons thus charged; and the executive authority of New York has refused, in open violation of the constitution of the United States, and in utter disregard of public justice, to comply with this demand: Be it therefore resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of .llabama in General Asscmbly convened, That the conduct of the executive authority of the State of New York, in refusing to comply with the demand of the executive authority of Virginia, is a violation of that solemn constitutional compact to which all the States of this union volunta- rily became parties-a disregard of public justice derogatory to the dignity of any State-an insult to the State of Virginia, and a dangerous and alarm- ing attack upon Southern rights. Be it further resolved, by the authority aforesaid, That we view the conduct of our sister State of' Virginia, in her demand upon New York, and in the measure of self-defence and protection which she has subsequently resorted to, as being in strict conformity with the principles of the constitu- tion, and as absolutely necessary for the security of those rights guarrantied to her by that sacred instrumhent : that during the whole progress of the controversy, she has been calm, temperate, dignified; making no appeals save to justice and the constitution-and inasmuch as we feel our interests to be identical with hers in the great question upon which she is at issue with Now York, we will make common cause with her, and defend and support her in the stand she has taken. Approved, April 27, 1841.

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