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Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of Alabama in response to the resolutions of South Carolina. 1859 689 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0517 and id is 1 raw text is: 689 7th, Your memorialists, earnestly urge that the great principles of justice be not powerless, when a nation is the subject of their applica- tion, and that the Government may not protect itself behind the doe. trine of the English crown that the King can do no wrong, and pray your Honorable bodies to pass a law providing for-the payment to the State of Alabama of the interest on the deferred pay ment of $103991 20, mentioned in the fourth clause of this memorial from. the time the respective amcunts making the said sum of $103,991 20 became due. Resolved, That the Governor of this State, be requested to furnish a copy of this memorial to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and that the former be instructed, and the lattei be reques. ted to urge the passage of a law by Congress for the accomplishment of the objects of this memorial. APPROVED, February 27, 1860. JOINT RESOLUTIONS Of the General Assembly of Alabama in response to the resolutions of South Carolina. 1st, Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, 1st, Resolved, That the State of Alabama, fully concurring with the State of South Carolina, in affirming the right of any State to ,secede -from the confederacy, whenever in her own judgment such a step is demanded by the honor, interests and safety of her people, is not unmindful of the fact that the assaults upon the institution of slavery. and upon the rights and equalty of the Southern States unceasingly continued with increasing violence and in new and more alarming forms, may constrain her to a reluctant but early exercise of that invaluable right. 2nd, Be it further resolved, That in the absence of any preparation. for a systematic co-operation of the Southern States in. resisting the aggressions of their enemies, Alabama, acting for herself, has solemnly declared that under no circumstances will she submit to the foul doii. nation of a sectional Northern party, has provided for the call of a convention in the event of the triumph of such a faction in the approch- ing presidential election, and to maintain the position thus deliberately assumed, has appropriated the sum of $200,000 for the military contin- gencies which such a course may involve. 3rd, e it further resolved, That tho State of Alabama having endeavored to prepare for the exigencies of the future, has not deemed it necessary to propose a meeting of deputies from the slave-holding States, but anxiously desiring their co-operation in a struggle which 44 .

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