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Report and resolutions in relation to the controversy between the States of N. York and Virginia. 1841 441 (1841)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsde0159 and id is 1 raw text is: OF DELAWARE. by the Legislatures of every State, lest the said acts and doings should hereafter be claimed as a precedent, and made the excuse for disfranchising a sovereign State, whenever a majority of either House of Congress from caprice, or strong party feeling may choose so to do, regardless of right, and in contempt of conse- quences, which might produce open rebellion, and perhaps a disso- lution of the Union. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to each of our Senators and Representative in Congress, with a request that they lay the same before their respective Houses; also to the Governor of the State of New Jersey to be laid before the Legis- lature of said State. Adopted at Dover, February 12, 1841. CHAPTER CCCLXXXVII. The Committee to whom was referred so much of the Govern- or's Message as relates to the controversy between the States of Virginia and New York, in relation to the refusal of the Governor of New York to deliver certain fugitives from justice upon the demand of the State of Virginia: Report: That they view with deep and anxious interest every difficulty between sister States, calculated to disturb the harmonV Report and -resolutions in and good feeling which should ever exist between the members of relation to the great national family of the Union. That whatever may be the contro- our individual opinions as to the abstract right to hold slaves, we versy be. cannot lose sight of the fact that this right is guaranteed to the ' ttefN. slave-holder by express provision in the Constitution of the United York and States in the following words: No person held to service or labor Virginia. in one State under the laws thereof, escaping into another shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.-Con. U. S., Art. 4. Sec. 2. That in the language of the Constitution of the United States, that instrument was formed and adopted for the purpose of forming a more perfect union, establishing justice, en- suring domestic tranquillity, providing for the common defence, promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity; that to give full force and effect to the ends thus proposed, it becomes not only the duty but the interest of every State, to regard with scrupulous tenacity the provisions of the national constitution; even should they come in conflict with popular prejudice or preconceived opinions. For these and other obvious reasons, your committee recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: 441

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