Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1858-01-28
ALABAMA.
WILLIE.

The Senate of Alabama, on Thursday, l4th
nst passed tho following preamble and resolu-
tions in relation to Kansas. We copy from the
Montgomery Mail, of Friday, the 18th inst:
Whereas, the people of Alabama, Of all poti-
cal parties, in their primary assemblies and party
conventions, rs we'll as by the unanimous voice of
their general assembly, have heretofore announced
the following as among the fundamental princi-
les of their political creed:
That Alabama, in their judgment, will and
ought to resist, even (as last resort) TO disrup-
ton 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 jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible with
the safety, domestic tranquility, the rights and
honor of the slaveholding States, or any act reg
ulating the slave trade between the slaveholding
States: or any refusal to admit as State, any
territory hereafter applying because OF the exs-
tencc of slavery therein, or any act prohibiting
the introduction of slavery into the Territories OF
Utah and New Mexico or any act repeating or ma
terially modifying the laws nov in force for the
recovery of fugitive slaves. And whereas, the
federal CONSTITUTIONS as we'll as the Kansas ebras'
ka act, plainly guaranteed to the bona fde inhabl
tants of the Territory of Kansas, when their
number was sufficient, the right to meet in con-
vention, composed either of the people themselves
or of delegates chosen by them, and when thus as
sembled. to frame Constitution. with or "ithout
slavery, rs to them might seem proper, and with a
Constitution thus framed, to demand an unquali-
fed admission into the Union rs State:
And whereas Kansas has exercised this plain
constitutional right, and is expected 10 ask for ad-
mission into the Union, and the refusal OF Con-
cress to receive her would be plain violation OF
this great constitutional right, and OF the princl-
pies herein set forth, to the maintenance OF which
Alabama has been so often and so soemnly
pledged:
Therefore, while this General Assembly will not
assume, in advance, to dictate the course to be
taken by the State of Alabama, in the event Kan
sas should be refused admission into the Union,
thew nevertheless feel constrained by a high sense
of duty. in the firm conviction that she will re
deem her pledges and take no step backwards, to
provide the means by which her people, in con-
vention assembled, may determine their course oil
action. Therefore,
Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, in General Assembly convened, Thai
in the event Kansas shall apply at the present, OIL
any future session of Congress, for admission into
the Union, as State, with and under the Constl
tuition heretofore framed and adopted by her, ant
commonly known as the Lecompton Constitution
and shall be by Congress refused admission, th'
Governor of this State is hereby respectfully IN
structcd, by proclamation, to assemble the quail
fed voters of this State, at the usual places o
voting, in their respective counties, to elect dele
gates to State Convention on n day to be by hin
appointed within ninety days from the time whei
he shall receive satisfactory evidence of such &C
ton by Congress. ;,
,. Be it further resolved That the Governor shall
by his proclamation, fix day for holding con
vention ut the capital of the State, not later thar
twenty days after the day fixed for such election
g Be il further resolved, That it shall be thu
utv of the Governor to issue to the Sherifs of the
several counties, writs of election, for rs many
delegates from each county, to said convention, n:
the said several counties shall be entitled to mem
bers in the House of Representatives of the Gen
eral Assembly; and said election shall be held n
the usual places of voting in the respective coun
ties and the polls shall be opened under the rule
and regulations now governing the election O
members of the General Assembly of this State
and said election shall be governed in all respects
by the laws then in existence, regulating the elec
tion of members of the House of Representative:
in the General Assembly, and the persons elected
thereat MS delegates to said convention snail bt
returned in like manner.
q. Be ii further resolved, That copies of the fore
going preamble and resolutions be forwarded tC
our Senators and Representatives in Congress, anG
to the Governors of all our sister States of the
South.
After some little talking about the machinery o.
the Joint resolutions for calling the proposed con
vention, the votes were taken. on the motion OF
Mr.. Cooke, to suspend the rule to give the reso
lutons the necessary readings, and to pass them
by ayes and noes and the votes were each thirty
two ayes, and not single No +!
The same preamble and resolutions were passed
on the same day in the House of Representatives
by a unanimous vote.