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Resolutions of the House of Representatives of the State of Georgia. 1840 211 (1840)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0309 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. cy the Governor be authorized to have furnished to the com- manding officer of the Georgia Hussars, at Savannah, seven- ty-five stand of swords and pistols, upon his giving security as in such cases required. Agreed to, December 16th, 1840. CHARLES J. JENKINS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Attest-ELBRIDGE G. CABANISS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, December 21st, 1840. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. Attest-DAvm J. BAILEY, Secretary. Approved, 24th December, 1840. CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor. IN HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The committee to whom was referred so much of the Governor's communication, vWith the accompanying docu- ments, relative to a convention held in the British Metropolis, have had the subject under consideration, and beg leave to report That they consider the object of said convention, so far as it was intended to affect the views of the slave-holding States of this Union, touching their domestic institutions, calculated to inspire feelings of greater surprise than alarm, resting under the belief, as your committee does, that the motives of said convention are prompted by a sense of misguided zeal and false philanthropy. Your committee would forbear commenting upon the opin- ions and suggestions expressed by said convention, but they cannot withhold their astonishment when fanaticism so far oversteps the bounds of caution as to quote from Holy Writ, maxims intended as reproof to the conduct and motives of others, which carry in their application the very spirit of con- demnation to themselves; for if, as avowed by said conven- tion, slavery be indeed a sin, involving all the moral turpitude connected with its existence, then, well might your committee in return remind said convention of another precept, incul- cated by the same inspired volume, and equally salutary in its practice, to wit: First cast the -beam from thine own eye, then shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother's eye. For is it not a fact as noted as it is deplora- 211

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