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Joint Resolutions in reference to the Wilmot proviso, and certain acts of the non-slaveholding States. 1847 450 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0377 and id is 1 raw text is: 450 at least. so far as to exempt newspapers, and documents printed by the order of either House of the Legislature of any State, from the opera- tion of said law. Resolved, That the foregoing resolution be forwarded, by the Go- vprnor of the State, to. the Senators and Representatives of Alabama inl the Congress of the United States. Approved, Dec. 17, 1847. JOINT RESOLUTIONS In reference to the Wilmot proviso, and certain acts of tle non-s'ave- holdiig States. Be it resolved by the Senate and Housye of IRepresentatives of tMe State of .dlanama. in General .A-xrmbly conveened, That the Govern- mient of the United States is the result of a c'oipact ierween eqlail cj nIl- federated sovereignties; and that the Constitutnin haintmm beetn cihielvy designed, so far us it conwerns hlie relanous of those states with one iot- other, to fbr a tnvre perfect vnionj, establish juisticr and I insure Jamestic tranquility. did not c'nf'cr on thut Govemineut aty authori- iv to abolish, or in any way rcnder tiiseure, the institition oh Slavery in any of said States, or to dprive atny citizen thereof of his prolert. whatever it might be, exctii for *puiblic 71s anti t1on malkit.g juAt compensation therefor K nd thai, moreover, in order the better to effect the objects desigited. as :aforenaid, tlie said Constit.ntion expressly provided and wijoined, th- 'No person held to service or labor in one State, under /te law's thcreof. escopiinig into anolher, shall, in consequence ofany law or reiguition therein, be dischargedfrom *vuch 'ervice or labor: but vhll/ be d/iv'iered upn on clim oJ the ptly 1 '/oom Such service or lator 1::j,, lie ie Sec. I. He it fu'rther resn 'ed, That the recent act of the State of Pennsylvania. designed it pr'venmt citizens of the sliv'eholding States from recovering their turuive si:ves, esraping into Pensylvania, b. therefore, not only tti Oodibni' of the nm'olity m11nd1 friviedship whihsbou'td s'tbsist b-tweeoii un;stouiated States, ht also a direct atid palpuble viu-i tion, of the C,,ons1ttiiinonI -of dhit Gumiteud States. Sec. :. Be it fr/her rrn''td. Thalt tihe TIerritory of tle Vimited States does not (like thbe territories of the States, respectively'), n to a overi .uimv separ:nto from tie State of Alabama, bt is the cnniion Prouitnu of all the Unitedl Stas . each one of' which send setators and representatives, and participates in the election of a President, to con- .**tune the Federal Governiment That thi Governmtnt has no other pawen than those which are delegated to it by the ,Constitution. which, ii this regard, ftuthorizes Congress to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory, or rjt/u' pireperty of the United .'!ait but does not authorive it to deprive. Digitized from the Best Copy Available

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