Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-26
MARYLAND.

The following Resolutions reported in the House
of Delegates of Maryland by the Committee +" of
Foreign Relations" have unanimously passed that
body:
lst Resolved unanimously by the General assembly of
rand That the State Of MARYLAND ceded to the United
States that part the District Of Columbia originally embraced
within her territorial limits in good faith for permanent
Of Government of the Union, relying upon the integrity of
purpose the part Of the General Government and upon
strict compliance with the terms Of cession in their letter and
their spirit
Cd. Resolced unanimously, That the State of Maryland
designed did the General Government at the time
Of cesson contemplate the using of the sovereignty the
District of Columbia the dement Of the local institutions
of the State Of Maryland.
Sd. Resolued unanimously, That the State of Maryland
was the time of the adoption of the Federal Constitution,
and now in feeling and in all the features Of her constu
ton and her laws, essentially, fully, and unequirocay
slaveholdng State.
4h. RESOLVED unanimously, That any attempt by Con-
gess to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia, without
the of its people, would be violation of the implied
conditions Of the ceson, just Of alarm to the slave
holding States and have direct and inevitable tendency
disturb and endanger the Union.
9Th. RESOLVED unanimously, That the State of Maryland
loves and values the Unon for the gores of the past the
happiness of the present. and the high desnes OF the future
and she believes truly American and patriotic heart would
wish disturb the great compromises which have made and
alone sustain and preserve it would willingly
the powers of the Federal Government for the purpose Of OPP
trampng upon the rights and interests of any Of
the States.
9Th Resoued unanimously, That the Territories Of the
United States belong the several States of this Unon and
the Congress Of the United States ghuy pass any
law do any act which is calculated to prevent deter
the citizens Of any of the said States from removing to and
settling with their property of every description upon said
Territories.
7th. Resoiped unanimously, That recur with pride
and satisfaction to the conciatoy and friendly feeling that
pervaded the council board Of the old thirteen States when
our present glorious constitution made and following
the example then set by fathers would, in this
day Of difficulty and trial. invoke similar spirit attend the
distracted councils Of the Federal Union but if we be disap
pointed in this solemn aud invocation, is due
ourselves and to the people United Staesthat should
declare that Maryland will take her position with her Southern
sisters in the maintenance of the constitutions with all it's
promises the preservation Of the Unon and the vndcaton
of her own just rights.
9Th. Resored unanimously, That our Senators in Con-
gress and Representatives be requested cono
nifty to the foregoing resolutions.
9Th Resoued unanimously, That the Governor Of this
State be requested to transmit copy Of the foregoing resou
tons to the Executive of each Of the States of this Union
with the request that the be laid before their respective
legislatures and also copy each Of Senators and Re-
representatives. in Congress-