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Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Texas on the subject of Slavery. 1849 93 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstx0049 and id is 1 raw text is: Ci APFTErI, LXXXYIII. Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Texas o 'thi subject of Savery. Resolved by the Legislaturc of the State of Tcxas, That the territories ot the United States, belong to the sevcral;States.cdm- posing the Union, and arc hcld by then as their joint and coin-, men property. Resolved, That Congress, as tle joint agent and representative of the Union, has no right to tMake any law, or do any act vhat- ever, that --hall directly or by its effects, make any discriminatioa between the States of this Union, by which any of them shall be deprived of its (tull anti equal right inl any territory of the Untited States, acquired or to be acquired. Resolved, That the enactment of any law which should direct- ly or by its effects. deprive the citizens of any of the States of this Uniou, from emigrating with their property into any of the teri.- tories of the United States, will make such discrimination, and would therefore be a violatioil of the constitution, and the rights of tle States from which such citizens emigrated, mid in deroga- tion of that perfect equality which belongs to them as members of the Union, and would tend directly to subvert the Uniou. itself. Resolved, That as a findamental principle in our political, creed, a people in forming a constitution have the unconditional, right to farm and adopt the government, which they may thii'k best calculated to sectire liberty, prosperity and happiness ; aud that in conformity thereto, no other condition is imposed by the Federal Constitution on a State, except that its constitution be republican, and 1liat the imposition of any other by Congress, w otid not only be in violation of the coustitution, but in direct. conflict with the l)ri uciple upon which our )olitical system rests, Rcsoived,,Thlt the abolition of slavery in the District of. Columbia, involvillin as it does, an exercise of power notgrianted' by the constitution, and designed as it is, as a means of aftbcting. the institution of slavery ill the States, and against which'it is aimed as a blow, should be resisted oniihe part of the South, by whatever neans are best adapted to the protecton of the consti- tution, the defence of herself, and the preservation of the Union. Resolved, That knowing no party names or political divisions upon questions involving in their nature and consequences, the character, property and political existence of those we represent, we are prepared to make common cause with our sister Slates of

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