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Resolutions which originated in the Senate of the State of Georgia. 1841 209 (1841)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0316 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORI'GINTED IN SENATE. IN SENATE. THE Committee on the State of the Republic have had before it the politic-) condition of the country, both in its General and State Relations, and have deemed it necessary to submit the views entertained in the following preamble and resolutions to the General Assembly, and to ask for them its concurrence. The Committee believe that recent events develope an organized and systematic determination, of which signifi- cant indications were offered at the late extra session of Congress, to discard the principles and policy'proper to be observed in the administration of the General Government. Additional acquisitions of power not contemplated or de- signed by the framers of the Constitution, repudiated by the Republicans of '98 and 1800, and wholly unnecessary to the vigor and efficiency of the administration of the Gov- ernment, are avowed as among the cherished objects of the new political reform. To such an administration of the General Government, the Republican party have been opposed from the adoption of the Constitution; and time and- experience have added innumerable proofs of the correctness of their principles, and the importance of their continued ascendancy, to se- cure the safety and integrity of the American Union and the sovereignty of each of the States of which it is com- posed. Although at different periods in the history of the coun- try, their principles have received temporary checks, very soon the recuperative energies of the people determined to be free, have surmounted the barriers and given them suc- cess. Ambitious aid designing men have somc times risen to power, and by torturing the Constitution, have enacted laws reckless of the provisions or prohibitions of that sacred instrument; but their career has been limited-their obnoY- ious measures indignantly condemned-their partial and. 14

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