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Joint Resolution in relation to the proposed Constitutional Amendment prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude within the United States. 1865 684 (1865)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0211 and id is 1 raw text is: 684 LAWS OF THE CHAPTER 592. Joint Resolution in relation to the proposed Constitutional Amend- ??ent prohibilin! slave/ry or involuntary servilude within the United AStates. ramon WHEREAS, in pursuainec of the lifth article of the Constitution of the United States, the Senate and Hfouse of Representatives of the United States, in Congress assembled, by a resolution passed at the second session of the thirty-cighth Congress begun and held at the city of Washington on Monday, the fifth day of December, A. D. 1864, have proposed a certain article of amend- ment to the said Constitution for the consideration of the legislatures of the several States, which said proposed article of amenldment is in the following words and figures, to wit: ARTICLE XII. SECTION 1. Nither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have e.aen duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction. SEcTuIoN 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article )y appropriate legislation. AND WIEREAS the Governor of this State has, in a special message, submitted said proposed amendment to the conside- ration of this General Assembly; ANm WHEREAS this General Assembly regards said propose,. amendment to the Constitution of the United States as violative of the reserved rights of the several States, coutrary to the prin- ciple upon which the government was framed, and believes, if adopted as a part of the Constitution, it will form an insuperable barrier to the restoration of the seceded States to the Federal Union: Therefore, Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met, That the members Amoudmeut of this General Assembly hereby declare their unqualified disap- rejected. proval of said proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and hereby refuse to adopt and ratify the same. Adopted at Dover, February 8, 1865. Digitized from Best Copy Available

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