Canton herald. (Canton, Miss.) 1837-1839, 1838-01-31
W.. CALllOUNN lIaUl.TUONS.

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The South in relation ~ Interference,
withhcr domestic Institutions. Vieks
bprg Regisfr.
Resolved, That IN The adoption ri
the Federal Constitution. the State.
adopting The same, acted seycrully, Jas
free, independeninnd sovereign States
and that each. for itself, W ~ own
voluntary assent, entered the UnIon
with the view ~ is increased security
against all dangers, domestic aa well
as foreign, and the more perfect aud
secure enjoyment Of rs advantages,
natural, political and social.
Resolved, That in dclcgaiing por-
ton of their powers 10 he exercised
by tho Federal Governments the States
retained, scveraly, the exclusive and
sole right over their own domestic IN
situations and police, and are alone
responsible for them; and that any in.
tcrmeddling Of any one or more States,
or combination Of their citizens, with
the domestic institutions and police
of the others, on any ground, or under
any pretext whatever, political, moral
or religious, with the view to their al
tcration or subversion, is an assump-
ton Of superiority not warranted by
the Constitution, insulting TO the States
interlered with, tending to cndanger
their domestic peace and tranquility,
subversivc of the objects for which
the Constitution was formed, and by
necessary consequence, tending to
weaken and destroy the Union itself.
Resolved, That this Government
was instituted and adopted by the
several States of this Union as com
mon agen., in order to carry into effect
the powers which they had delegated
by the Constitution for their mutual
security and prosperity; and that, in
fulfilment Of this high snl sacred trust,
this. Government is bound so to cxer-
else its powers as to give, as far as
may be practicable, increased stability
and security to the domestic instltu-
tons Of the States that compose the
Union; and thati, is the solemn duty
Of the Government to resist all at
tempts by one portion ofthc Union to
use it as an instrument to attack the
domestic Institutions of another, or to
weaken or destroy such institutions,
instead of strengthening and upholding
them, as it is in duty bound to do.
Resolved, That domestic slavery,
it exists in the Southern and Western
States OF this Union, composes an
important part of their domestic IN.
situations, inherited from their ances-
tors, and existing at the adoption OF
the Constitution, by which 1t is recog-
Missed as constituting an essential ele-
ment in the distribution OF its powers
among the States, and thatno change
Of opinion or feeling on the part of
the other States of the Union in rela-
ton to it, can justify them or their
citizens in open and systematic attacks
thereon, with the view to its over
throw; and that all such attacks are
in manifest violation of the mutual and
solemn pledge to protect and defend
each other, given by the States, re-
spectively, on entering into the con-
sttutional compact, which formed the.
Union; and as such is a manifest
breach Of faith, and q violation Of the
most solemn obligations, moral and
religious.
Resolved. That the intermeddlingI
of any State or States, or their citi-
zcns, to abolish slavery in this District,
oranyof the Territories, on the ground,
orunder the pretext, thatit is immoral
or sinful, or the passage of any act or
measure of Congress, with that view,
would be direct and dangerous at
tack on the institutions of all the
slave-holding States.
Resolved, That the union Of these
States rests on an equality Of rights
and advantages among its members,
and that whatever destroys that equal
ity tends to destroy the Union itself;
and that it is the solemn duty Of all.
and more especially of this body
which represents the States in their
cooperate capacity, to resist all at
tempts to discriminate between the
States in extending the benefits Of the
Government to the several portions
of the Union, and that to refuse to
extend to the Southern and Western
States any advantage which would
tend to strengthen, or render them
more secure, or increase thoir limits
or population by the annexation Of
the now Territories or States, on the
assumption or under the pretext that