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Resolutions relative to the interference of certain associations in the northern states with domestic slavery in the south. Agreed to by both houses. 1835 395 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsva0515 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. No. 1.-Resolutions relative to tho interference of certain associations in tile northern states with domestic slavery in the south. (Agrird to by both housoe, F:hrunry 16th, 1830.) 1. Resolved, That this commonwealth only, has tile right to nightorstateto control or interfere with the subject of domestic slavery within its fo1trol slavery in limits, and that this right will be maintained at all hazards. • 2. Resolved, That the state of Virginia has a right to claim Righttoclaim I - • . . I r co-statesl ellrco. prompt and efficient legislation hy her co-states to restrain as far as tive bgilaton may e, and to punish those o their citizens, who, in defiance o tn the b r .. .. trotnco o/citizons the obligations of social duty and those of the constitution, assail with slavery. her safety and tranquillity, by forming associations for the abolition of slavery, or printing, publishlig, or circulating through the mail or otherwise, seditious and ineandiary publications, designed, cal- culated or having a tendpracy to operate on her population, and that this right, tbunded as it is on the prin-ciples of interna- tional law, is peculiarly fortified by a just consideration of the inti- mate and sacred relations that exist between the states of this Union. 3. Rcsolved, That the non-slaveholding states of the nion are No slavehohliog Il~tto roquelstodl respectfully but earnestly requested promptly to adopt penal enact- tosuppe,, eu. ments, or such other meastures as will effectually suppress all asso- tion societies, &e. cations within their respective limits, purporting to he, or having the character of, abolition societies; and that they will make it highly penal to print, publish, or distribute, newspapers, pamphlets, or other publications, calculated or having a tendency to excite the slaves of the southern states to insurrection and revolt. 4. Resolved, That we have.seen with satisfaction those expressions confdo,, o it, of public opinion of our northern brethren, favourable to the rights 0 fo°allianct with the southern states, and in condemnation of the conduct nd mo- tives of the abolitionists among them ; and that, confiding in their justice and attachment to the principles of the Union, enfbreed by the sympathies of common dangers, suflrings and triumphs, which ought to bind us together in fraternal concord, we are warranted in the expectation that the foregoing request will be received and com- plied with in the spirit in which it is made. 5. Resolved, That congress has no constitutional power to abo- P'ower to ubolish t, slavery in district lish slavery in the district of Columbia, or in the territories of the orytrritoriosdo- United States. yilod. 6. Resolved, That this general assembly woul regard any actI,aolitioindia- of congress having for its object the abolition of slavery in the dis-t'et or torritois trict of Columbia, or the territories of the United States, as afford- unto,. ing just cause of alarm to the slaveholding states, and bringing the Unio into imminent peril. 7. Resolved, That it is highly expedient for the slaveholding Soippresionorin. t-ub t io iry publica. S tate, to enact such1 laws and iegulatiotis as inay be nleessar.y tO ti'

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