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Resolutions on Federal Relations. 1859 566 (1859)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0366 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSYPPI. CHAPTER CQCXCVII. RESOLUTION Won Federal Relations. 1. Resolved, by the dg'iedture of the Stdte of Wi8S.3ipp, That the COnstit ntion of thle: United States recognises proliert ini slaes andi the g t'velrnet4 creat'd by it cannot, nor can ay triinal neng under it ahority, who er it be executive, legislive or judicia l, within its appro- piiate sphere, jisly withhold from the owners of slaves that oiltuate potection for ther slave property to whichl Ithe owners of property of other kinds nr ontitled, o whieh fromn its nature they miay a urther require to tcoure then in its posfs- sion aid ejlij)YIent. 2. That the eleotion of a President of the United States lbv the votus of one section of the I nio only o the giround that there exists an Trrco- cijable confiot between the two sections in refer- ence to their respective Mystcms of labor and AYith an avowed pu'srpcso of hritlity to the instituion of slave er as it prevails i the Southern Stat and as reco6gnized by the colnpact of Union, would so threaten a de-taction of the ends 'or which the Conslitntion vas formed, as to justify the slave- holding Stat an taking consel t1ogdther for their separate piotection and safet'. 3. Ihat in oider to be prepar'ed for such a con- tingency, Mis is ippi accepts the inv-itaition of Sontti Carolina to le' siter slae holdi g States to eet in con entio, an lI pes the fist Monay in Jhno fU Kt and Athanta, Georgia, as a stabble time and ple to niet to counsil together ant reeomi' enI tie atibn they s1o ld k take in such au event. wich shall Ae reporte10 to the Governor, who sli 1 convene tile Loislainrc, i i his ljudg- menit it, liy he reqired i and that this Legisla- tuic at it present acsion proceed to cleet seven delega I to atteid t oe Convention at Atlata. '4. 'Fiat cumnissit ionsr be aippointed by the Govrnor to proceed to ih, capital of Virginlia, and ixpos t) 1he pojle of tlhat commnwoealth, througti her executive, the indignation thit Missis- sippi fols at the outrage coaitied in the recent

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