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Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas. 1854-1855 278 (1854)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsar0126 and id is 1 raw text is: 278 with the great constitutional rights of the country, and which shall be calculated to increase the strength, wealth and well be- ing of the great south and south-west, and to develop our great internal and industrial resources, and which shall either directly or indirectly tend to the promotion of the strength and perpetuity of our glorious Union, and the honor of our common country, which may be adopted by said convention, shall have the high approval of this General Assembly. And be it jurther resolved, That a copy of these resolutions, signed by the Governor, and under the great seal of the State, be transmitted by the Governor to said convention. Approved 11th January, 1855. WHEREAS, The right of property in slaves is expressly recog- nized by the Constitution of the United States, and is, by virtue of such recognition, guaranteed against unfriendly action on be- half of the general government; And whereas, each State of the Union, by the fact of being a party to the federal compact, is also a party to the recognition and guaranty aforesaid; And whereas, the citizens of each State are, in consequence of such citizenship, under the most sacred obligations to conform to the terms and tenor of the compact to which. their State is a party; Therefore, First. Be it resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Ar- kansas, That the legislation of Congress, repealing the Missou- ri Compromise of eighteen hundred and twenty, and asserting the doctrine of non-interference with slavery, alike in States and Territories, is in strict accordance with the Constitution, and in itself just and expedient, and is, for these reasons, cordially approved by the people of Arkansas. Second. Resolved, That the opposition of Northern States to the legislation above mentioned, is at war with the letter and spirit of the Constitution, is grossly violative of plighted faith, and is a traitorous blow aimed at the rights of the South, and the perpetuity of the Union. Third. Resolved, That the citizens of the State of Ohio have pursued a course peculiarly unjust and odious, in their fanatical hostility to institutions for which they are not responsible; in their encourogement of known felons, and indorsement of re- peated and shameless violations of law and decency, and in their establishment of abolition presses, and circulation of incendiary documents, urging a servile population to bloodshed and rapine; and by reason of the premises, it is the duty and the interest of the people of Arkansas to discontinue all social and commercial relations with the citizens of said State, and the same is hereby earnestly recommended as the punishment of past outrages, and a nreventive of further aggressions.

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