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PREAMBLE AND SOLUTIONS ADOPTED.
WHEREAS, The. PEOPLE Of the United States, "ia
order to fern Wore perfect union, establish justice
insure domestic tranquility &C., Is, q ~ lcssn
IN the preamble Of the constitution FOR ths us'eed
States. have ordained s government Of nenssave'
thu government is 4 !goyernment Of eoupacts, COM
L. In the compact Of the Constitution (.rt !, sec;
~ recognizing slaves as persons toee represented
by their masters, and as property to- DO taxed upo"
3 In the eos.*scs t.rt 1, sec e. that Congress
shall have posres 10 suppress instructions.
press the slave trade prior to 1905. and in giving
Congress the power to impose tax or duty upon
each slave imported before that time not exceeding
ten dollars for each slave
i. In the compact TART i, sec. ~ to deliver up
on claim Of the party to whom slave service may
be due the person or such slave held to such ser
vice or labor. (Hi! hi! hiD
): In the compact (art A, sec. A upon the appli-
cation of any Legislature or Executive Of State,
to protect said state against domestic violence.
(Cheers.)
And whereas, the federal government has, from
its origin been administered by the executive, by
Congress and by the Supreme Court Of the United
States not only in the letter but in the spirit Of
these compacts. Applause.)
l. Before and after the old Confederation, in the
division of the then unsettled Territories, by de-
claring all north Of the Ohio to be non-ssveholdng
and all south of the Ohio to be slaveholGng.
2. In the Ordinance, July 13 1881, making free
the Territory, now Ohio INDIANA, Illinois and Mich
igan but providing therein, also, for the surrender
of fugitive slaves
g. In the acts, President Washington approving.
admitting into the Union the Territory Of Ken
lucky, slaveholding then the property Of Virginia,
and afterwards the Territory Of Frankland slave
holding now Tennessee, then the property Of North
Carolina.
4. In the Ordinance, April Z, 1898, John Adams
approving organizing. the Mississippi Territory,
then belonging to Georgia now Alabama and Mis-
sissippi in which was especially excepted there
from the antislavery clause in the Northwestern
Territory, in these words:
"ExcEprlSG and EXCLUDING the last article Of the
ordinance of 1887"
s. In the Fugitive Slave law of 1s93, George
Washington approving, which passed the Senate
in the purchase Of Louisiana, President jefferson
approving all that vast region west Of the Missis
sippi, stretching to the Pacific ocean and to the
British possessions, all of which was, under the
laws of Spain or France slavchodng, and larger in
extent at that time than the whole United States.
Z. In the treaty of 17S3-nnth article-provid-
ing against the deportation of slaves, with the OIL
cal correspondence of Washington, Randolph, Cow
erneur Morris and John Jay thereon.
s. In the Judiciary act 1889 9th section) adopt
ing the constitutional laws of the several States
which recognize slaves as property well Is per-
sons.
8. In the acts enumerating slves for the purpose
of direct taxation, especially the act Of 1873 James
Madison approving, which assessed taxes upon the
land dwelling houses and slaves, at the value each
of them was worth in money.
10. In the treaty Of Client QS14l under which,
from Great Britain, our government received g.
2OoOG0 and paid it over to the owners of deported
slaves.
II. In the purchase of Florida, in 1919, as q
slaveholding Territory, from Spain.
IL. In the decision by the Supreme Court Of the
United States, of the constitutonaty of the act of
1893, in Priggs case, and of the like act of 1850
in every before any of the high courts federal
or State, unless in one State court in Wisconsin,
and in divers other decisions upon laws, ordinances
and treaties Cries OF That's sou
Therefore, be it Resolved, That the Union thus
formed constituting it does the closest most del
cate and important relation that can exist between
communities Of people, demand from each part a
warm and earnest consideration for the safety pros
perty and happiness of the other Cloud cheersl and
that whatever policy tends to subvert these ends IS
hostile to the true spirit of the compact Renewed
cheers
That the constitution the treaties the laws of the
United States and the judicial decisions thereupon
recognise the institution of slavery legally exist
ing; and that it is our duty as good citizens of q
common government, in good faith to stand by that
constitution (cheers) those treaties (cheers those
laws and the decisions of that final arbiter of al
disputed points-the Supreme Court of the United
States. Immense appause.)
That inasmuch as the proceedings of the conven
ton which framed the constitution were brought I,
stand, as appears by the declaration of Roge
Sherman, one of its most distinguished authors, un
til compromise was agreed to on the various prop
ostions relating to domestic slavery, which compro
mise embraced.
A restriction on the power to prevent the impor
tation of slaves prior to 1903.
A provision binding on each State and upon tn
Union to surrender fugitives from service
A representation in Congress founded in part o.
three-ifths Of the slave population.
And a guarantee to protect each State against d.
nestle Instruction.
Thus providing under the constitution for the in
PRODUCTION Of slaves for limited PERIOD and for tn
protection Of the system. Therefore
1t is the duty of every citizen and State sharin
in the great blessings of that instrument faithful
10 Ininl tnese oohgatlOnS. (ApP!ause
That We protest against and denounce, IS contrar
to the plighted faith on which the constitution va
established, all acts or inaammatory appeals who
intend or tend to make this Union less perfect or
leopard or disturb its domestic tranquility, or to ms
the spirit Of harmony, compromise and concessio
upon which the Union was formed by our father
whose records We have cited, and whose lceacies v
have in these compacts, laws and adjudicatous
vehement applause.)
That We regard the recent outrage At HARPER
Ferry as crime-Qoud applause)- not only again.
the State of Virginia but against the Union itself
lgrcat cheerinO; and We approve Of the frmne.
5y which the treason has been duly punished. 0u
mense, and three cheers and tiger.)
That, in our opinion, the subject Of slavery h,
been too long mingled with party politics (cries
That's socand Is the result has been the ere
ton Of sectional PARTIES contrary to the advice Ie
ter and spirit Of the Farewell Address Of the Faith
OF our common country that therefore, it is Il
duty ofplanters, farmers, manufacturers, merchant
mechanics, and of every citizen, North and Sout
East and West to dscountenance all parties and O
carnations that thus violate the spirit of the co
stitution and the advice of Washington. Enthu.
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