The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-12-19
SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.

SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE.
IN SENATE, Dec. 2, 1914. -Resolu-
tons in reference to special agency
sent from the State of Massachusetts,
submitted by MIR Treville:
Whereas, information has been receiv-
ed that the State Of Massachusetts has
recently appointed and sent to the city
ofCharleston, special agent with in,
structions and authority to institute pro-
ceedings at her expense, in The Courts
of the United States, for the purpose of
testing the conslitutionality of certain
act of this State, passed on the 18th of
December, Ammo Domini 1885, entitled
IAN act more efectually to prevent free
negroes and other persons of color from
entering into this State, and for other
purposes
And whereas, we have always regard
cd the aforesaid law as a necessary
measure for the security Of our proper
ty, and tho peace and good order Of So
ciety; and recent indications have not
only proved that we aie not mistaken,
but that nothing short Of the most rigid
endorsements ofthe said law, TO its very
letter, can save us from the insidious DO
licy and practices Of the aboitlonists;
therefore
Resolved, That while we admit the
right of Massachusetts to elevate the de- !
scendants OF the African race to the rank !
or status of free white persons and 10
confer on them all the rights and immu-
mites which the most favored fiber citi
zens enjoy qrithin her oun limits, we de-
ny that she has any right to require US
TO extend TO such Of them as may enter
our limits, the immunities and privileges
which are secured by the constitution Of
the United States to her free white citi-
zens alone.
Resolved, That the State of South
Carolina ought not to submit to any die
tatlon, either from a sister Slate or from
the Supreme Court Of the United States
Of subject Of such vital importance TO
herself, as the government Of her color.
ed population; and should the aforesaid
act be declared unconstitutional and in
valid, by the Federal courts, the princi-
pie of self-preservation will nevertheless
compel her citizens at every expense of
life and property, to uphold and maintain
the due and rigid enforcement Of the
said law, according to its very letter and
spirit.
Resolved, That the conduct Of Mass.
achusetts in attempting 10 procure, by
federal Judicial Legislation the repeal of q
law, which was intended to be, and is
barrier between the slave and the ennis
sarIes Of the aboitionists, is an unwar.
rantable and gross insult to the people of
this State.
A Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury says
To-day the Governor communicated
letter received by him from one Hoar,
who writes from Charleston, to say that
he is there as the accredited agent (but
forwards no credentials) of Massachu.
sets, to commence legal process, in or
der to carry before the Federal Courts
the case Of colored citizens ofMassachu-
sets, imprisoned, or who may be, under
our State laws against the admission Of
free colored persons in our State.
The lnsoIence and imperinence of
this abolition move is insuAerable, if it
turns out not to be hoax the absence
offormal credentials beyond the ipse dixit
OF the man who writes himself Hoar
as suspcious) but we learn that Mass
achusetts has offered a similar agency to
lawyers in Charleston before, and been
refused. She may, therefore, have now
sent her own man 10 begin the war, and
make direct issue with us on aboli-
ton.
The State will meet it in such a way
as to preclude al chance of Federal in
reference, ii is 10 be presumed, and thus
make the direct battle with our abolition
enemies; and if Massachusetts persists
in, or repeats the interference, there will
be war between the crack States Of the
Union. 1t is likely that the Bunker Hill
State is goaded thus to strike the Fort