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Report from the Committee on the State of the Republic. 1845 209 (1845)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0344 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. mail communication between the cities of Montgomery, Macon and Savannah, Georgia. Resolved further, That the said Senators and Representa- tives be requested to have established, by law, such an arrange- ment for the transportation of the Eastern and Western Mails to and from Columbus, as will give to said city their Mails as early as they are received at LaGrange. And be it further resolved by the authority aforesaid, That a copy of these resolutions jbe transmitted by his Excelknucy the Governor to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, soliciting, at the same time, their attention to the same. Assented to, December 19th, 1845. Report from the Committee on the State of the Republic. The attention of the Committee on the State of the Repub- lie has been particularly directed to the memorial or declara- tion of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Mas- sachusetts, in relation to the difficulties which have originated between the authorities of that State and those of South Caro- lina and Louisiana; and while they regret the occasion which so imperiously calls upon Georgia, as one of the sister States, deeply and gravely interested in the results, to avow her solemn convictions of the merits of the controversy, they nevertheless feel it to be their bounden duty to speak out freely and frankly upon this, as upon all other questions involving a mutual feeling and reciprocity of interest among the sister States of this Union. And although we do not feel warranted, nor deem it neces- sary, at the present, to enter upon an elaborate argument of the questions at issue between the authorities of the Common- wealth of Massachusetts and the States aggrieved, we, however, feel bound now to declare our most perfect concurrence in, and adherence to, a precept of government upon which South Caro- lina and Louisiana have predicated their defence and justifica- tion, and involving the principles which we are pleased to see that Massachusetts herself, by her proper authority, in her me- inorial, sanctions, to wit: that if there be any force in the concurring sentiments of all authorities upon the nature and end of government, there is no principle more clear than this, that it is the indispensable duty of a State to do every thing within its power that may protect its members against wrong. This principle we most willingly and unrCservedly adopt as the rule of our action, and upon this are willing to take issue, in common with our sister States, against the course adopted by the authorities of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Th'e question whetherfree negroes should be considered in the light of citizens or not, is one that the Constitution fixes, and the 27 209

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