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Joint Resolutions relating to the Rights of the State, and the Duties of the Federal Government. 1859 684 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsmo0229 and id is 1 raw text is: rator as aforesaid is fully authorized to exedute and deliver to the purchaser of said slave a bill of sale, which may be consistent with the contract of sale; and which shall fully convey to the purchaser all the right, title, and interest of the minor heirs named in the first section of this act to said negro man slave named Sam. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved December 15, 1859. RESOLUTIONS. JOINT RESOLUTIONS relating to the Rights of the State, and the Duties of the Federal Government. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Missouri, as follows : First. That the measures of the administration of the Federal Govern- ment, as carried out by President Buchanan, meet the cordial approbation of the people of the State of Missouri. Second. That our Senators in Congress have proved themselves true to the high trusts delegated to them by the Legislature of Missouri, and are entitled to our cordial approbation, and possess our entire confidence. Third. That we regard the territories the of United States as the com- mon property of the people of the several States of this Union, and as such open alike to settlement to citizens of every part of the confederacy, and that they have. the undoubted right to remove therein with property of what- ever nature, kind, and description; and we regard any attempt to debar them of this right by Congressional interference as a flagrant violation of the Fed- eral compact and the law of the land, as decided by its supreme authorities. Fourth. That we regard it as the right of every territory, when it has the required population, to demand admission into the Union upon the terms prescribed by the Federal constitution, and upon admission as a State to al- low or prohibit slavery, as it may deem expedient. Fifth. That whilst we deprecate and condemn all attempts on the part of any portion of our fellow-citizens to invade the territories of any nation with whom we are at peace, we still cordially sanction and approve the just efforts of our administration to add the island of Cuba to these United States, by purchase or other peaceful negotiation, believing that such an- nexatio, would incalculably increase the prosperity and safety both of Cuba and of this republic. Sixth. That we regard public annunciations recently made by men in high places, that all the States in this confederacy must be either free or slave, a political heresy, at war Yith reason and common sense; and while we would repudiate and condemn all attempts on the part of slaveholding States to intermeddle in the remotest degree with the domestic institutions of sister States, where slavery does not by law exist, we claim the exclusive 684 RESOLUTIONS.

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