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Resolutions relative to the question in controversy between the North and South. 1848 111 (1848)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsfl0180 and id is 1 raw text is: Passed at the Fourth Session of the General Assembly, 1848-'9. No. 1. Resolutions relative to tho question in controversy between the North and South. Resolved by the Senate and lousc of Rcpresentatives of the State of Florida in General Assembly convented, That, as friends of the Union, we view with most serious alarm tile course of our Northern Question of brethren in relation to the question of slavery-a course which, mark. Slavery. ed by unkindness, wrong, insult and injury, has, already, to a most unfortunate extent, weakened th2 bonds which unite them and us- which, if persisted in, in the same spirit, can only terminate in fur. ther alienation, and the inevitable dissolution of the Confederacy. Resolced, That the recently acquired territory, having been purcha. sod by blood and treasure of which her full proportion was contributed Territory re- by the South, he and her sons are entitled equally, with any other per. centlyacquird tion of the Union, to the enjoyment of the same-this General Assem. bly, therefore, believing that Congress possesses under the Constitu. tion no power to pass such a measure, adopting similar language to that of the Legislature of Virginia, hereby declare it as their opin- ion, that, under no circunistances, will the people of this State be willing to recognize as binding any enactment of tile Federal Gov. ernment, which has for its object the prohibition of slavery in any territory south of the line of the Missouri compromise, holding it to be the natural and independent right of each citizen, of each and every State of the Confederacy, to reside with his property, of what- ever description, in any territory.acquired by the arms of the United States, or yielded by treaty, with any foreign power. Resolved, That the abolition of slavery in the District of Colum. .bia, involving, as it does, ain exercise of power not granted by the Slavery in the- Constitution, and designed as it is, as a means of aflecting the insti. Dis. of Colum. tution of slavery in the States, against which it is aimed as a blow, should be resisted on the part of the South, by whatever means are best adapted to the protection of the Constitution, the defence ef her. self and the preservation of the Union.

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