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Federal Resolutions. 1851-1852 719 (1851)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0171 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. NUMBER I Federal Resolutions. WHEREAS, opinions have been advocated at the North -and at the South, in reference to the compromise mea- sures passed by the last Congress, and the questions growing out of slavery in United States, which if per- sisted in, are calculated to bring the general govern- ment in conflict with the States of the Union, and threaten the destruction of the constitution, and the liberties of the country. And the people of Tennessee, through her Legislature, desire distinctly to state their views on these questions. 1. Resolved, thcrefore, by the General Assembly qf the State of Tennessee, That the people of this State, feel and ardently cherish an abiding devotion to the Union and -Constitution of the United States. 2. Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States does not recognize the right of secession on the part of any of the States of this Union, and the people of the United States, in the adoption thereof, did ordain and establish a government of limited powers, and not a confederacy merely, and that it proceeds ppon the idea that it is to be perpetual, like other forms of gov- ernment, subject only to be dissolved by revolution. 3. Resolved, That the State of Tennessee maintains the right of the people of the States, whenever -palpably, intolerably, and unconstutionally oppres- sed by the Government of the United States, to resist Digitized from Best Copy Available

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