Des Arc citizen., 1860-03-21
RELATIONS OF THE STATES.

l III tHS Ocudtc MI LAWS SuUlliLteu Lilt following resolutions: | 1. RESOLVED, That in the adoption of tn, l Federal Consultation, the States adopting tht
 same acted severally as free and independen
 sovereignties, delegating a portion of theil
 powers to be exercised by the Federal Gov
 ernment for the increased security of each | against dangers, DOMESTIC as well as foreign
 and that any intermeddling by any one or
 more States, or by combina nation of their citi- zens, with the domestic institutions of the
 others, on any pretext whatever, political,
 moral, or religious. with view to their dis turbance or subversion, is in violation of the
 Constitution, insulting to the States so inter fered with, endangers their domestic peace
 and ranqnility-obiects for which the Com
 stitution was formed-and by necessary con- sequence tends to weaken and destroy the Union itself.
 9. RESOLVED, That negro slavery. as it exists in fifteen States of this Union, composes an important portion of their domestic insti- tutions, inherited from their ancestors, and existing at the adoption of the Constitution, by which it is recognized as constituting an important element in the apportionment of powers among the States; and that no change of opinion or feeling on the part of the non- slaveholding States of the Union in relation to this institution can justify them or their citizens in open and systematic attacks there- on with view to it's overthrow and that all such attacks are in manifest violation of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and de- fend each other, given by the States, respect ively. on entering into the constitutional com pact which formed the Union, and are mani- fest breach of faith and violation of the most solemn obligations.
 States rests on the equality of rights and privileges among its members, and that it is especially the duty of the Senate, which rep resents the States in their sovereign capacity, to resist all attempts to discriminate either in relation to person or property in the Territo- ries, which are the common possession of the United States, so as to give advantages to the citizens of one State which are not equally assured to those of every other State.
 4. RESOLVED, That neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature, whether by direct legislation or legislation of an indirect and rnfriendly character, possess power to annul or impair the constitutional right of any citi- zen of the United States to take his slave property into the common Territories, and there held and enjoy the same while the Ter ritorial condition remains.
 5. RESOLVED, That if experience should at any time prove that the judicial and executive authority does not possess means to insure adequate protection to constitutional rights in Territory and if the Territorial Govern ment should fail or refuse to provide the ne cessary remedies for that purpose, it will be the duty of Congress to supply such de- fciency.
 6. RESOLVED, That the inhabitants of a Territory of the United States, when they rightfully form constitution to be admitted as State into the Union, may then, for the first time, like the people of State, when forming new constitution, decide for them selves whether slavery, domestic institu- tion. shall be maintained or prohibited within their jurisdiction; and :. they shall be receiv- ed into the Union with or without slavery, as their constitution may prescribe at the time of their admission.''
 [. RESOLVED, That the provision of the Constitution for the rendition of fugtives from service or labor, without the adoption of which the Union could not have been formed, and that the laws of 1793 and 1850, which were enacted to secure its execution, and the main features of which being similar, bear the impress of nearly 70years of sanction by the highest judicial authority, should be honestly and faithfully observed and maintained by all who enjoy the benefits of our compact of Union and that all acts of individuals or of State legislatures to defeat the purpose, or nullify the requirements of that provision and the laws made in pursuance of it, are hos tile in character, snbyersive of the Constitu- tion, ard revolutionary in their effect.