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30th CONGRSSy [SENATE.] MISCELLANEOUS
1st Session. No. 19.
RESOLUTIONS
OF
THE LEGISLATURE OF KENTUCKY,
IM FAVOR
Of the passage of a law by Congress to enable citizens of slaveholding
States to recover slaves when escaping into the non slaveholding States.
DECEMBER 20, 1847.
Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and ordered to be printed.
REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS of the General Assembly of the commonwealth of Kenucky.
The committee on federal relations, to whom were referred the proceed-
ings of a meeting of the people of the counties of Trimble and Carroll, in
relation to a recent abolition mob in the town of Marshall, State of Michi-
gan have had the same under consideration and submit the following
report:
It appears to the satisfaction of the committee that one Francis Trout-
man was employed as agent and attorney in fact for Francis Giltner, of
the county of Carroll, to go to the said town of' Marshall, in the State of
Michigan, to reclaim, take and bring back to the State of Kentucky cer-
tain fugitive and runaway slaves, the property of said Giltner; that said
Troutman proceeded, under the authority thus given him, to said town of
Marshall, for the purpose of reclaiming and bringing home to the owner
the slaves aforesaid; and whilst endeavoring to arrest said slaves, a mob,
composed of free negroes) runaway slaves, and white men, to the number
of from two to three hundred, forbid said Troutman, and those who ac-
companied him for that purpose, to arrest and take into their possession
the slaves aforesaid) and by their threats, riotous and disorderly conduct,
did prevent said Troutman, and those associated with him for that purpose,
from taking into their possession the slaves aforesaid.
Your committee regret that the citizens of the town of Marshall, in the
State aforesaid, have thus acted and conducted themselves; such conduct
and such outrages committed upon the rights and citizens of the State of
Kentucky, or any other State of this Union, must necessarily result in
great mischief, and is well calculated, and must, if persisted in by the
citizens of Michigan, or any other of the free States of this, Union, termi-
nate in breaking up and destroying the peace and harmony that is desira-
ble by every good citizen of all the States of this Union, should exist be-
tween the several States, and is in violation of the laws of the United
States and the constitutional rights of the citizens of the slave States.
The affidavit qfisaid Troutman is appended to this report and made part
hereof, (marked A.) Wherefore,
Tippin,& Streeper, printers.
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