Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1858-01-28
KANsAs..ALABAMA.

KANSAS..ALABAMA.
The following are the resolutions which
have unanimously" passed both Houses
of the State of Alabama. There was not
single 'no:"
Whereas, The people Of Alabama, of all
political parties, in their primary assem-
blies and party conventions, as well as by
the unanimous voice of their General As
sembly have heretofore announced the fol-
lowing as among the fundamental princi.
pies 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, any action of Congress,
upon the subject of slavery in the District
of Columbia, or in places subject to the ju-
risdiction of Congress, Incompatible with
the safety, domestic tranquility, the rights
and honor of the slave holding States, OF
any act regulating the slave trade between
the slave-holding States; or any refusal to
admit as State any Territory hereafter
applying, because of the eristenee Of sla-
very therein, or any act prohibiting the in
PRODUCTION of slavery into the Territories of
Utah, or New Mexico, or any act repeating
or materially modifying the laws now in
force for the recovery Of fugitive slaves
And whereas, the Federal Constitution, as
well as the Kansas and Nebraska act plain
ly guaranteed to the bona tide inhabitants
of the Territory of Kansas, when their num-
Der was sufficient the right to meet in a
convention, composed either of the people
themselves or of delegates chosen by them
and when thus assembled, to frame Con-
stitution, with or without slavery, as 10
them might seem proper, and with Con-
stitution thus framed, to demand an un-
qualified admission into the Union, as
State.
And whereas, Kansas has exercised this
plain constitutional right and is expected
to ask admission into the Union; and the
refusal of Congress to receive her would
be plain violation of this great constitu-
tional right and Of the principals herein set
forth, to the maintenance of which Ala
bama has been so often and so solemnly
pledged:
These are, while this General Assembly
will not assume, in advance, to dictate the
course to be taken by the State Of Ala
bama, in the event Kansas should be re-
fused admission into the Union, they nev-
ertheless feel constrained by high sense
of duty, in the firm conviction that she will
redeem her pledges, and take no step back
wards, to provide the means by which her
people, in Convention assemble, may de-
termlne their course of action; therefore,
Be it resolved, by the Senate and House
of Representatives, in General Assembly
convened: That in the event Kansas shall
apply at the present or any future session
of Congress, for admission into the Union,
as a State, with and under the Constitu-
ton heretofore framed and adopted by her
and commonly known as the Lecompton
Constitution, and shall be by Congress re-
fused admission, the Governor of this State
is hereby respectfully instructed, by procla-
nation to assemble the qualified voters of
this State, at the usual places of voting in
their respective counties, to elect delegates
to State Convention, on day to be by
him appointed within ninety days from the
time when he shall receive satisfactory ev
idence of such action by Congress.
2 Be it further resolved, That the Gov
ernor shall, by his proclamation, fix day
for the holding of a Convention, at the
Capitol of the State, not later than twenty
days after the day fixed for such election.
3. Be it further resolved, That it shall
be the duty of the Governor to issue to the
Sheriff's of the several counties writs of
election 70: as many delegates from each
county to said Convention, as the said sew
eral counties shall be entitled to members
in the House of Representatives of the
General Assembly; and said election shall
be held at the usual places of voting in the
respecting counties, and the polls shall be
opened under the rules and regulations now
governing the election of members of the
General Assembly of this State; and said
election shall be governed in all respects
by the laws then in existance, regulating
the election of members to the House Of
Representatives in the General Assembly,
and the persons elected thereat as delegates
to said Convention, shall be returned in
like manner.
4. Be it further resolved, That copies of
the foregoing preamble and resolutions be
forwarded to our Senators and Represen-
tatives in Congress, and 70 the Governors
of all our sister States of the South.