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30th CONGRESS, [SENATE.] MISCELLANEOUS'
lot Session. No. 85.
RESPONSE
OF
THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA,
IN ANSWER
To the resolutions of the State of Vermont on the subject of slavery and the
twar with Mexico.
MARCH 21, 1848.
Ordered to lie on the table, and be printe&.
Response of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama to the pream.
ble and resolutions of the State of Vermont on the subject of slavery and
of the war with Mexico.
The State of Alabama deems it proper to Tespond in a respectful
manner to the preamble and resolutions of the State of Vermont. In
thus responding, Alabama, as a sovereign State of the American Union,
formed its opinions on the subject of slavery at the adoption of the
constitution and the admission of the State into the Union. This opin-
ion has never been changed, nor has any opinion expressed either by
the citizens in their private intercourse, in their popular assemblages
or General Assembly, upon -the subject of slavery, been changed, nor
will it be retracted. So -far as the war with Mexico is concerned, we
regard all honorable efforts to conclude a speedy peace with that republie
as having been made by the President of the United States. We regard
the war as one of necessity, for the protection of the rights of American
citizens, and which co.uld not be avoided without a faithless violation of
their rights by the Chief Magistrate of the nation. Thi, auestioua has been
settled by Congress in 1846; and whilst Alabama refuses to be fickle upon
a subject of so much importance to the honor of nations, Vermont may.
Therefore be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the Stare of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That his exeellency
the governor of this State send to the governor of every State in this
Union a copy of the foregoing response, as well as to our Senators and
Representatives in Congress.
L. P. WALKER,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JN0. A. WINSTON,
Tippin________ President of the Senate.
'1'ippini & Streeper,, printera.
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