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Preamble and resolutions, respecting Slavery. 1838 337 (1838)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0033 and id is 1 raw text is: MISSOURI. - .4 .resolution concerning the times and places of holding courts. Resolved, By the General Assembly of the State of Missouri; That the so retary of State shall, immediately after the close of the present session, make out and publish in some newspaper printed at the City of Jefferson, a statement shewing the arrangement of the judicial districts P.nd circuits; the times and places of holding the Supreme Court, in each judicial district, and the times of holding circuit Courts in the several counties of the respective circuits, as the same shall then be fixed by law. APPROVED, Feb. 11, 1839. Rtsolved, By the General Assembly of the State of Missouri: That it shall be the duty of the sheriffs of the several counties in this State. at the time of ta- king the census, to take and enter, in separate columns, the number of.deaf and dumb persons, sind the number of blind persons residing in their resliec- tive counties, depignating the age and sex of those persons, and what number of such personshave been taught to read and write. APPROVED, Feb. 12, 1839. Preamble and resulutions, respecting Slavery. Resolved, By the General Assembly of the State of Missouri; That whereas, the institution of domestic slavery, as it now exists in abany of-the States of this confederacy, whether or not a moral or political evil, was entailed on us ay our ancestors, recognized by the constitution of the United States-the par- amount l.aw of the laild.--and, by that s.ma instrument, forming the solemn compact w.hich binds these. States together, entirely and alone left to be regu- lated by the domestic; policy of the several States: and whereas the interfer- ence with,that institution on the part of the citizens of other portions of the Union, among whom it may not be tolerated, is tnconstitutional; a gross violpsi tion of the solemn compact subsisting between the States of the confederacy; oflicious, derogating from the dignity of the slave-halding States, and insulting to their sovereignty; well calculated to disturb their domestic peace, light up the torch, and plunge them amid the horrors of secrvile insurrection and war; disturb the friendly feeling and intercourse, which should ever subsist between the several States of the confederacy, and untimately destroy their union, peace and happiness; and whereas we have long viewed with feelings of deep regret the disposition continually fostered and promoted by the citizens of many of the States of this Union, wantonly to intermeddle with such institu- tion, as manifested by numerous disorgani.zing and insurrectionary movemnents; and have as fondly anticipated that the evil tendency of such a course of policy must longlere this have been seen and desisted from; but in these reasonable expectations, and calculations upon thesober sense and patriotism of our castern brethren, we have been very disagrecably disappointed; Therefore the .south- ern and southwestern States, in. these numerous and continued acts of insult to their sovbroignty, are admouished in language too plain to be misunderstuod, that the dreadftl crisis is actually approaching, when bach of thent must look out means Adequate to its own protection, poise itself upon its reserved rights, and prepare for defending its domestic institutions from wanton invasion, whether from foreignor domestic enemics, peaceably if they can, forcibly, if they must: 1. Risolved, That since the, Constititonm of the United States has no whera deprived the States from regulating domestic slavery, that institition therefore is plain!y and expressly left to the regulation and control of their domestic policy, and form4 one among the most liport int features of their reserved right 2. Resolved, That the interference with such institution, on the part 6fthe citizens of other portions of the Union where t does not exist, is in direct co- 43 331

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