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Joint Resolutions calling a Convention in a certain contingency in the election of a President of the United States. 1859 685 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0518 and id is 1 raw text is: 685 funding the small sums paid for said lands, would be wholly inade- quate to compensate said settlers for the loss sustained by an unfortun. ate error of Government officers for which they are in no wise respon- sible, and against which they had no power to guard; that said en- tries having been made in strict pursuance of the provisions of the Act of 1854, and their cancellation resulting in an entire deteat of the beneficent policy embodied in it, converting so far as said citizens are concerned, a blessing into a curse, and a refuge into a ruin, the Gener- al Assembly of Alabama, speaking for this portion of its injured peo- ple, feel that they have strong claims upon the wisdom and justice of your honorable bodies for such adequate and equitable reparation as the nature of the case may admit of, and so feeling, they beg leave to submit the following suggestions: 1st. Said one hundred and seventy- seven entries were made both upon odd and even sections, while the right of said Rail Road attaches only to the odd sections, there can be therefore no obstacle to the passage of an act by Congress confirming that portion of said entries made on the even sections. 2d. Congress can a4so by a new act donate to said Rail Road an equal number of acres, within the same distance of the Road, on the even sections, which would doubtleus be accepted in lieu of the lands on the odd sections, entered by said citizens. Nearly all said entries were made upon lands donated to the Alabama and Florida Rail Road Company, who are selling said lands without estimating the value of the improvements, and could not therefore be injured by such exchange. 3d. If said Companies refuse their assent to such exchange, there is but one mode remaining in which anything like complete justice can.be done to the unfortunate persons who have been so deeply injured by the mistake of the officers of the United States, and that is to assess the value of the improvements made by said settlers, and to pay them such value in money. The General Assembly of Alabama having thus laid be- fore the Congress of the United States a statement of the grievance complained of, and pointed out a practicable remedy, conclude by in. voking the early attention of your honorable bodies to the matter herein set forth, in the confident belief that their appeal in behalf of these unfortunate people cannot fall unheeded upon wise, just and hu- mano law-givers. APPROVED, January 11, 1860. JOINT RESOLUTIONS Calling a Convention in a certain contingency, in the election of a President of the United States. 1WHlEREAs, anti-slavery agitation persistently continued in the non- slaveholding States of this Union, for more than a third of a century,

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