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Joint Resolutions reported by the Committee on Federal Relations in relation to Kansas affairs. 1857 434 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0493 and id is 1 raw text is: 434 JOINT RESOLUTIONS Reported by the conmittee on federal relations in relation to Kansas affairs. Be it rcsolcer by the Senat and House of Representatives of the State of -Alabuma, in Ge7eral Assembly co vened, That Robert J Walker, the 'Governor of Kansas, has plainly, palpably and dangerously violated the piinciple of non-intervention contained in the Kansas bill: First-By taking sides in his inaugual address against the introduc- tion of domestic slavery into that territory, and enforcing his views by an argument, thus abandoning at the very outset of his administration the rectitude and impartiality which befitted his station, and upon which every -ection oft he union had a right to insist, and throwing the weight of his official influence against the rights and interests of the southern States. Secondly-In undertaking to serve the cause of freesoil, which he bad thus officially espoused, by proclaiming that the constitution of Kansas alter being adopted, should be submitted for ratification, and by pre- scribing the class of voters to whom only it should be so submitted, when the people of Kansas, acting through their legally appointed con- \vention, alone had the right to settle these questions for themselves. LThiruly-In assuming without authority of law to interfere with the retui is of the late elections, and thus by a nakcd usurpation changing its result, and giving the ascendancy in both legislative houses to the party of fanaticism over the party of the constitution ; that for these unjustifiable and flagitious acts, Robert J. Walker deserves and receives the uuqualified condemnation of the State of Alabama. 2. Resolved, That the people of Alabama profoundly regret the failure of the administration to remove Governor Walker, and are wholly un- able, upon the facts now in their possession, to reconcile such fadure with fidelity to the principle of non-intervention embraced in the Kan- sas bill; but, from extreme reluctance to believe, even upon such evi- dence, that an administration elevated to power by the votes of four- teen southern States, can present so filgrant an examplc of bad faith as an endorsement of the courzc of Governor Walker would exhibit, they lorbear expressing any censure or condemnation in ad- vance u the opportunity afforded the President, by the approaching meeting of Congress, to explain the causes of his apparent continued acquiescence in the atrocious policy of the Governor of Kansas. 2. leolved, Tht the State of Alabama recognizes and in common wiLt hier sister States of the South, will maintain to the last extrmunty the rights of the leople of Kansas, acting through their legally , p- pointed convention, in spite of interference or dictation from any qui r- ter, to adopt a constitution with or without subiitting the same 'or subsequent ratification, as in their judgment may be proper, and to be

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