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Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi declaring secession to be the proper remedy for the Southern States. 1860 43 (1860)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0370 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OP MISSI8SIPPI. CHAPTER XII. RESOLUTION providing for a Coat of Arms for the State of Mississippi. Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Alis- sissippi, That the Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Accounts, State Treasurer and Attorney-General, be authorized and requested to preparo a device for a Coat of Arms for the State of Mississippi, and to have the same ready by the 7th day of January next, to be engraved after the same shall have been adopted by the State authorities. Approved, November 30, 1860. CHAPTER XIII. RESOLUTIONS of the Legislature of the State of Missis- sippi declaring secession to be the proper remedy for the Southern States. WHEREAS, The Constitutional Union was formed by the several States in their separate sovereign capacity, for the purpose of mutual advantage and protection; That the several States are distinct sovereignties, whose supremacy is limited so far only as the same has been delegated by voluntary compact to a Federal Government, and when it fails to accomplish the ends for which it was established, the parties to the compact have the right to re- sume, each State for itself, such delegated powers; That the institution of slavery existed prior to the formation of the Federal Constitution, and is recognized by its letter, and all efforts to impair .its value or lessen its duration by (ongress, or any of the free States, is a violation of the com- pact of Union, and is destructive of the ends for which it Was ordained, but in defiance of the principles of the Union thus established, the people of the Northern States have' assumed a revolutionary position towards the Southern States; That they have set at defiance that provision of the Constitution which was intended to secure domestic tranquility among the States and pro- 43

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