Litchfield enquirer., 1848-05-11
No. SO, WHo q No. ll54

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094 "a, the whole amount being SllS.4I7> i
10. he receipts into the Treasury dnr TO
the year, including $25,OUO borro~e ed OF the
| rch"ol Fund, under the authority of the
iaSt neral Assembly amount TO SI29,-
ooo *, leaving balance Of civil list funds
| ~ tne treasury on me 3lst of March of
$iO,Sto o. But there is due 10 he S, ho,l
FUND, on note given in March Io47, the
sum OF $S,2L2,43, and also $4,000 bor>
r0Wed as Aforesaid, SO that the State is &C.
lually in deb, $l6,966 Of.
The judicial expenses OF the year were
$56,'Sl ~, being S. O20 O5 more than in
the preceding year. In a forme. commu-
nication which made to the Genera As
S"Mbly, expressed my views on this sub
Iect, and also on that of taxation.
A bill on the latter subject was laid be.
| tore the General Assembly at the las, Ses>
s'"n, and referred to the committee appoin-
TED 10 revise the statute laws of this State.
have received from The Executivesuflhe
| Status OF Maine, Vermont, Rhode Island,
| Maryland, Ohio. Tennessee, Georgia and
| Alabama, resolutions passed by the legisla
lures q those States, approving the plan of
Asa whitney, Esq, for the construction Of
railroad from Lake Michigan to tie Paci.
| tic ocean. 1853
htsesreSolutions will be laid betOre YOU
There have also been transmitted 10 me.
and which will be laid before Won. sundry
resolutions OF the State of Rhode island on
the subject Of the MEXICAN war: and ex-9
pressing the opinion of the Legislature that
| the war might have been avoided with hon
o., ny moderate and constitutional course
- proceeding On the part ofthe President of
TN ted States, and ought not to be prosecux
ted tor the pa poses Of conquest and the ans
J hexa'ion of Mexicaa territory, as an dem
nifty Tor claims upon her.
The State of Mississippi has also passed
resolutions, which HI We been ira nsn!itted 10
mcs upon the same subject, declaring that,
III the op Mon of the. legislature, the war
with Mexico was begun by that republic
mat It was the duty Of the President 10 re.
pei the threatened invasion Of Texas, and
when the first blow was struck by Mexico,
10 carry The war into the enemy's country.
These resolutions, and also sundry Others
passed by the Legislature or Texas on the
4 Wilmot Proviso, slavery, the tariff, and the
war against Mexico, will be submitted 10
your consideration.
| l4have also received from the Executive
OF Alabama, the response OF he legislature
Of that State, to the leg islalure of Rhode Isl.
and, on the snbjecto of the tariff and the Mex
lean war: And also 10 the preamble and
certain resolutions Oi the Legislature of YER
mont, on the subject of slavery and the war
| with Mexico.
The Executive of Alabama has also trans.
mitled, and which will be laid before YOU.
certain resolutions Of the legislature of that
state, In reference to the Wilmot Provisu,
aud certain acts of the non>slu veholdiny
States.
IL will be seen that both Alabama and
Texas deny The constitutional power of
the Congress of the United States to inler>
'efe with, or TO prohibit the existence of
slavery in any territory the United States
or IN any State hereafter to be created out
OF snch territory: and the Legislature of
Texas declare that they will not submit to
any law hich prohibits the citizens Of the
Southern states from taking their slaves to
any territory which mny be acquired from
Mexico. And the legislature of Alabama
hsolv', hat as one means of enforcing their
claim aud Of protecting what they demon.
inaie HE institutions Of the south, they will
support no man for the Presidency or Vice
Presidency of the United States, who is
not opposed TO the principles of the Wilmot
ProviSo, or who is in fayorof the acqusi~
ion only of such territory as is not adapted
10 the institutions of sluvcry-aad The free
States are warned that any interference ON
This subject on their part, mnst nnasoidably
inhame aaimosities already excited, and
beget acts of retaliation and finally civil
, couvulsions-for that The south cannot and
will no, submit to wanion aggresslons on
an institution SO vital to it.
WI a il here reguSlti nc ma ntoa an.
greseion on & e inslitn ions of The south, IS
= very apparent from the scope and tenor Of
these resolutions.
Now il is undoubtedly uue that the con.
stsuiOnd' rights of the siave-ho,ding tates
~ fesp'c 20 this matter, are to be regarded
and preserved inviolaie. We are clearly
bound by our federal engagements, not 10
attempt any change ~ the adjusted reia,
lions OF society, IL those states where slavery
is already established, under the Constilu.
lion. ~
But tie resolutions in question take much
higher ground. They assume the princi-
pie, hot that Congress ought not, but that
they cannot. inhbit an institution, funda-
mentally unjust, and oppressive, and agains.
which the Christian world Is sending up
one united voice. in any state hereafter 10
| NC IuW ODOU-dUu IN q state
recently admitted, and in q manner not a
IiGle peculiar, is threa tenfng ,esistanee to
every law of Congress which does not co,
nride with us enlightened views Of cons,i,
ln,iopaI Freedom.
The principle advanced in these resolu>
lions Is no! for the first time asserted.
Upon the admission Of Missouri into the
Union, 10 1890, I've Commonwealth of Yir.
GINA pnt fosah decia alton denying the
legitimate right of Congress TO prohibit
slavery, as condition OF admitting a new
state into the Union, or 10 oppose any other
restriction not necessary TO guarantee to
such state republican form ofgovernmen,.
! Missouri was admitted under what Is term.
ed The Missouri COMPREHENSIVE admis.-
sion being accompanied by solemn declar.
alton thai, with the exception Of the stale
then to be admitted, slavery should forever
remain interdic,ed in all Of the territory Of
,ha United States, ncrth of thirty-six de-