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Resolutions which originated in the Senate of the State of Georgia. 1842 181 (1842)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0325 and id is 1 raw text is: RE SOL1UTIONS wHicH ORIGINATED IN SENATE. IN SENATE. Tm: Committee on the State of the Republic, to whom wcro referrcd the various resolutions from other States, beg leave to report: That among the Rtesolutions transmitted by His Excellen- cy, the Governor, are certain resolves of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, against the imprisonment of Free Negroes, under the laws of t.ose States which forbid the ingress of such persons within their borders. Your Committee would have passed by these Resolutions, unnoticed, as the sickly oflisions of a wild and reckless fa- naticism, had they not pronounced such a law a gross viola- tion of the Federal Constitution. Georgia has such a law on her Statute Book; and we deem it our duty to repel the charge as unfounded in truth, and as manifesting a spirit which, if not rebukled and checked, will, sooner or later, destroy our Institutions and dissolve our Union. No State has a legal or moral right to interfere with the domestic policy or internal regulitions of a sister State. 6eorgia has never rebuked Massachusetts for fraternizing with negroes, nor held her up to the reprobation of the States of this Union, for her violations of tbo Charter of Confedera- cy, by proclairning those citizens, who were not so at the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution; thereby attempt- ing to add to that sacred instrument, and thus violating the letter and spirit of the compact. If your Committee had no other lights to guide them, than those furnished by the Constitution, they would he at a loss to ascertain what clause is referred to by the Legislature of Massachnseits, as being violatcd by the law above alluded to; but we are constrained to suppose that this bold asser- tion is based upon that section which grants to the citizens of each State, all the privileges of citizens in the several States. The meaningr of this article is too plain for cavil ; and could only have bon intanded to guaranty to the citizens of any one State the privileges to which citizens of other States were entitled-or in other m ords, admitting negroes to be

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