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Resolutions which originated in the Senate of the State of Georgia. 1827 194 (1827)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0195 and id is 1 raw text is: WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE SENATE. IN SENATE, December 5,1827. The Jomt Committee on the State of the Republic, to which was referred the resolution of the sclatc, instructing an enjuiry into the right anl p-pijety of the Congress of the United States appropriating moniey from the Public Treasury of the Union in aid of the Colonization Society, IEO I': That assuming, as a fact well known to this legislature, that tihe American Colonization Society has declared its intention to make application to the Congress of the Uni- ted States for ai appropriation in aid of its funds, your coimnmittee believe that the time has arrived, when it be- COITIeS the imperious duty of the Goneral Assembly of Georgia, gravely andfit nily to enter its protest against the right of Congress to make such appropriation. 11', o tihe final adjournment of that great assemblage, which formed the Comisitution ofthe United States, any -one had declared that the genius, the wisdom, and the patriotism there com- binted, had totally failcd to effect the object of the conven- tionm ; that instead of creatimg a Govrnnment of unlimited powers, they had, by the careless insertion of a few words, vested that Governimeit with absolute aid unlimiteu ove- reigmty, that man would have been laughed at for his folly, or branded as a delmagogue. It is true that some did ap- prehend and predict, that as the new government advanced from infancy into the full vigor of life, attempts would be made to grasp by construction, those powers, which had not been expressly granted by the convention ; but the gorat mass of the people believed, that the terms of the gr;mt were too wvel defined to admit of construction ; and that if there was a serious objection to the constitution, it

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