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A resolution requesting the President of the United States to call the attention of the British Government to the subject of slaves who make their escape into the provinces of Canada. 1826 197 (1826)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0178 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. ist port. Your committee recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: Resolved by. the General Assembly of the Comnonwealth of Zen- tucky, That they view with deep and friendly interest, the exer- tions of the American Colonization Society, in establishing an asylum on the coast of Africa, for the free people of color of the United States; and that the Senators and Representatives in Congress from this State, be, and they are hereby requested to use their best efforts to, facilitate the removal of such free per- sons of color as may desire to emigrate from the United States to the colony, and to insure to them the protection and patron- age of the General Government, so far as they shall be deemed consistent with the safety and interest of the United States. Resolved, That the Governor be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolution to each of our Senators and Represen- tatives in Congress. Approved, January 22d, 1827. A resolution concerning the establishment of a mail line betwen Louis,(ille and Now-Orleans, on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. Resolved, That in the opinion of this Legislature, it woultd be expedient and of great public benefit for Congress, in conjunc- tion with the Post Office Department, to establish a mail line on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, to be carried by steam boats, three times a week, between Louisville and New-Orleans, and to be extended as high up the river-Ohio as Wheeling, Virginia, when in the opinion of the Postmaster General, the department requires it: and that our Senator's in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their influence and ex- ertions in carrying into effect the object of the foregoing resolu- tion. Approved, January 16th, 1027. -1 resolution requestimg the President or tie United States to call th. attention of the British Government to the subject of slaves who make their escape into the provinces of Canada. WHEnrs many of the citizens of this Commonwealth possess a considerable number of slaves, which are secured to them by the constitution and laws of tdiis State as property, and owing to our proximity to the possessions of his Brittannic majesty, in the p~rovinces of Canada, many of them are enabled to make their escape from the United States, and enter the limits of these pro- iby reo whereof many of their owners have snffered

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