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Resolution. 1804 148 (1804)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0053 and id is 1 raw text is: ; 48 j ldho legslature otthat state, more especially when the subject to be adj.. 6licatedon, is of w ,ch a nature as to require alt intinate knowledge of the 1history of that statei, and the particular mode of acquiring thst property .hich is the dubject of dispute REsoLVn Tratroaz, That the zentors 'R, congress from thil state be and they are hereby instructed, and our represeftatlies in eon. gress are.also reqlsested to use their best endeavours to procure such an amendment to the constitution of the United states, as will confine the ju. dicial power of the courts of the United States, t0 cases in law and equity arising under the constitution and laws of the United States, and treaties .xnade or vhich shall be made sinclr their Authority, cast; affecting am- ,bassadors, other public ministers and consuls, cases of admiralty and. inaritime jurisdiction, controversies to which the Unit4 StOte3 shal b aparty, to controversies between two or more states, - I RESOLVED ALSO, That the governor be and he is hereby requested to forward the foregoingresciution to eachof the sex:tors and represents. tives fronm this state, in the congress of the United States; glso to the ,xecutive of each state in the Union, that the same may be laid before their several legislatures, with a request fo' their co.operation ill pro 4 ting ie said amendment. Arraovza Decembcr 19, ;SO4i RtSOLVED, That in aconfeder tionofsttatcs the principlesby which they shall he governed are a subject ofagreement between the contracting parties, and th-t the constitution of the United States was therefore agreed on by the whole and ratified by each of the states. That seve ral cf the provisions of that instrument beilpg adapted to ,he peculiar situation of fome of the states, and intended to protect their Interests which might otherwise have been neglected or forgotten, were conditions without which these statc would npt have acceded to thi slnion. That the mode or representation ptescribed by the constitution bf th9 United States was a condition on which the states holdinF, slaves became parties in the confederation, and that it is just in itself and not oppressive to any of the states, because as the states which permit the existence of slavery had authorized the introduction of slaves nearly from the time of their establishment, and had thereby lessened the number of free person* theyirould otherwise have contained, while they increasedthe productions, and consequently thib wealth ofthe cotintry ; it would be unjustto consider. them as po stssing no other population, but the numberot free petsoni ,they now contain. The influence ofthe eastern states in the national go, -einment cannot'h e diminished by the number of slaves who may be em. p.yed in the cultivation of the southern and western parts of the union, and of Louisiana, the population of a country will depend on the exteiit ind fertility of its soil ; and were these countries cultivated by freemen instead of slaves, their relative weight in the union would be increased, afid that ofthe others proportionally diminishcd And the states holding slaves support their just share of the public ubrthens. In direct and capitation taxes the proportion paid by each state ) regulated bj its representation, and the dutkis up9 tjiclos nifpo ~tcj

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