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Joint Resolutions on Federal Relations. 1863 381 (1863.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0207 and id is 1 raw text is: STATE OF DELAWARE. , CHAPTER 336. Joint Resolutions on Federal Relations. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delatoare, in General Assembly met, 1. That this General Assembly and a large majority of the people of Delaware ardently desire a restoration of the Federal Rstoranon Union upon its original basis; that they will aid in the ae-ofeFederal complishieni t of that result by proper and constitutional means, azrable. and with a sacred regard for the rights of all the States, and the people of all the States, but are unwilling that the Federal compact should be violated by those who administer the func- tions of government. 2. That the American Union was formed with great diffi- American culty, and on the part of some of the States with serious mis-unio t givings and distrusts upon the subject of Federal power, andge'Mh but for the incorporation in the Constitution of provisions.thcsy. protect the persons and property of the citizen, and his right to free expression of opinion, written and oral, with the under- standing alterward expressed by amendmnt, that the powers not granted to the Federal government by the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States, were reserved to the States re- spectively, or to the people, that instrument never would have been made. 3. That underthe plea of taking necessary steps to put down the rebellion, but really to tyrannize over political adversaries, citizens of this State, as well as of other States, have been seized upoin arbitrary edict and imprisoned in forts and camps, without being informed of the nature of the accusation against Citizcen them, and finally discharged without trial or the semblance ofbimiod one, and all this upon claim of authority from the Federal Go-$?r i w Chout vernment, an outrage upon the rights of the persons arrested, trial.u an invasion of the rights of every other citizen, and a reproach to free government; that under the same pretence freedomnTheaea.. of speech and of the press have become idle words, as if upon' opower them did not rest the corner-stone of the fabric of our free in- toloratediby stitutions; that these monstrous usurpations of power are notundrte plea or us- rebuked by Congress, but tolerated because of the declaration cesity to that they are necessary to put down the rebellion. Such de-'1r claration is utterly false, but if it were true, regarding as we Plea fase, do the preservation of civil liberty, paramount to every otherbut if true, consideration, we unhesitatingly declare that the end proposed 'oiednno i~ +dA is.. .worth the.- to be attained is not worth the sacrifice required. sacrifice. 4. That viewing the numerous violations of the Constitu- tion of the United States by the Federal Executive, as tending 0 88-L

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