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Joint Resolutions providing for the call of a convention in case Kansas is refused admission into the Union. 1857 426 (1857)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsal0495 and id is 1 raw text is: 426 JOINT RESOLUTIONS Providing for the call of a convention in case Kansas is refused ad- mission into the Union. WIfEREAs, The people of Alabama, of all political parties, in their primary assemblies and party conventions, have heretofore alnounedt the following as among the fundamental principles of their political creed: That Alabama, in their judgment, will and ought to resist, even, as a last resort, to a disruption of every tie which binds her to the Union, any action of Congress upon the subject of slavery in the District of Columbia, or in places subject to the jurisdiction of Congress, incom- patible to the safety, domestic tranquility, the rights and honor of the slaveholding States, or any act suppressing the slave trade between the slaveholding States, or any refusal to admit as a State any territory hereafter applying because qf the existence of slavery therein, or any act prohibiting the introduction of slavery into the territories of Utah or New Mexico, or any act repealing or materially modifying the laws now in force for the recovery of fugitive slaves; AND WHEREAS, Th Federal Constitution as well as the Kansas-Nebraska act, plainly guar- anteed to the bonajide inhabitants of the territory of Kansas, when their number was sufficient, the right to meet in a convention, composed either of the people themselves or of delegates chosen by them, and, when thus assembled, to frame a constitution, with or without slaverv as to them might seem proper, and with a constitution thus framed, to demand an unqualified admission into the Union as a State; ANIL WHEREAS, Kansas has exercised this plain coustitutional right, and is expected to ask for admission into the Union, and the refusal by Con- gress to receive her would be a plain violation of this great constitu- tional right and of the principles herein set forth, to the maintenance of which Alabama has been so often and so solemnly pledged, There- fore, while this General Assembly will not assume in advance to dic- tate the course to be taken by the State of Alabama in the event Kansas shall be refused admission into the Union, nevertheless, feel constrained by a high sense of duty, in the firm conviction that she will redeem her pledges and take no step backwards, to provide the means by which her people, in convention assembled, may determine their course.of action. Therefore, SECTION 1. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabamain General Assembly convened, That in the event Kansas shall apply at the present or any future session of Congress, for admission into the Union as a State, with and under the constitution heretofore framed and adopted by her, and commonly known as the 'Lecompton constitution, and shall be by Congress refused admission,

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