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Response of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama to the Legislature of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, on the subject of the Tariff and the War with Mexico. 1847 456 (1847)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0376 and id is 1 raw text is: 456 RESPONSE Of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama to the Legislature ol the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, on the subject of the Tariff and the War with Mexico. THAT the State of Alabama finds no good reason to recede from 'the firm and decided position which she has heretofore maintained, or the Opinions which she has constantly expressed, in relation to the policy of the National Government for the protection of the capital and labor employed in domestic matufactories. That the Tariff of 1842 was-conceived, adjusted, and perfected, with a view to such protection, without regard to a just and fair considera- tion of the commercial policy of the United States, the powers delegated to Congress by the Constitution of the American Union; and the rights of the agricultural classes of not only the citizens of Alabama, but of others in the United States: That its-repeal was called for hy the cn- iightened spirit of the age, the demands of the federal constitution. the rights of the agricultural classes, and that it was effected by the wisdom of Congress, in the act of 1846. '[hat it is manifestly the duty, not only of Alabama, but of every State in the Union, to sustain the General Government in every e.1- goney which may arise in the efforts of the federal authorities to preserve the national honor. protect our commerce, defend our territory, or main- lain the rights of our citizens; and that in imposing hurthens and cot- lecting taxes, it is the duty of Congress to consult the goneral welfare of the Union, without reference, or favoritism for the particular interest of any State, or section of our common country. The decision of the couitiy, exloding the system that connected the revenue with banking institinnos, and separated the funds raised for th* support of the Government, was founded on the soundest political rea. soning, and most just policy of the National Government ; and that its reversal by Congress would be prodkictive of the utnmost discord, not only it) the councils of the nation, but in the peace, harmony and good ftolinps of thu peoplo at large; and that any attempt at such reversal should at once be met and. repudiated. In reintion to the war which Mexico waged, and which thu United States is now so triumphantly prosecuting, indemnity for the past and security for the future, shottld be claimed and enforced, as an act of national honor and justice: That should it become necessary to receive or take from Mexico any portion of its territory for such indemnity, it 6hould beattacheld to the United States, for the common use and benefit (if the people of this country, untrammeled and unconnected, without atny conditiou or restriction repngnant to the Constitution of the Federal Union, the institution of slavery in the South, or the social -or political interest of any portion of the repnhlic. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives qf the State of Alabani, in General dssembly convened, That the Governor of Digitized from the Best Copy Available

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