Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-01-30
The Alabama Resolutions.

Below will be found so much of the resolutions
OF the Legislature of Alabama as sets forth the &C.
ton of that State in relation to Kansas They were
unanimously adopted:
WHEREAS, The people of Alabama, of all political
parties, in their primary assemblies and party con-
ventions as well as by the unanimous voice of their
general assembly, have heretofore announced the
following as among the fundamental principles of
their political creed:
That Alabama, in their judgment, will and ought
to resist, even (as last resort) to disruption of
every tie which binds her to the Union, anv action
of Congress upon the subject of slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia, or in places subject to the jurs-
dction of Congress, incompatible with the safety,
domestic tranquility, the rights and honor of the
sIavehodng States, or any act regulating the slave
trade between the slavehoding States or any reiu-
sal to admit as State, any territory hereafter ap-
plying because of the existence of slavery therein,
or any act prohibiting the introduction Of slavery
into the Territories of Utah or New Mexico, any
act repeating or materially modifying the laws now
in force for the recovery of fugitive slaves. And
whereas, the federal Constitution, as we'll as the
Kansas Nebraska act plainly guaranteed to the bona
tide inhabitants of the Territory of Kansas, when
their number was sufficient the right to meet in
convention composed either Of the people themselves
or of delegates chosen by hem and when thus assem-
bled, to frame Constitution, with without slavery
as to them might seem proper, and with Constitu-
ton thus framed, to demand unqualified admission
into the Union as State:
And whereas, Kansas has exercised this plani con-
stutional right and is expected to ask for admission
into the Union, and the refusal of Congress to
ceive her would be plain violation of this great
constitutional right and of the principles herein set
forth, to the maintenance of which Alabama has
been so often and so solemnly pledged
Therefore, While this General Assembly will not
assume in advance to dictate the to be taken
by the State of Alabama, in the event Kansas should
he refused admission into the Union, they neverthe
less feel constrained by high of duty, in the
firm conviction that she will redeem her pledges and
take no step backwards, to provide the means by
which her people, in Convention assembled, may de-.
termine their course of action. Therefore, be it
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Represen-
tatves, in General Assembly convened, That in the
event shat Kansas shall apply at the present fu.
ure session of Congress for admission into the Un-
ion as State. with, and under the Constitution
heretofore framed and adopted by her, and common
ly known as the Lecompton Constitution, and shall
be by Congress refused admission, the Governor of
this State is hereby respectfully instructed, by pro-
clamation, to assemble the qualified voters Of this
State, at the usual places of voting, in their respcc-
tive counties, to elect delegates to State Conven.
ton day to be by him appointed within ninety
days from the time he shall receive satisfactory evil
dence of such action by Congress-