Communication from His Excellency the Governor, transmitting certain Resolutions of the legislatures of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama.

Abstract/Description:: Senate document (New York (State). Legislature. Senate) ; 1861, no. 20. Alternate title: At head of title: State of New York. No. 20. In Senate, February 1, 1861. Caption title. "E.D. Morgan"--Below caption title, page [1]. "Resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States": pages 3-5."Joint resolutions relative to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union": pages 6-8. Summary: 1861 Tennessee resolution proposing pro-slavery amendments to the United States Constitution and the Pennsylvania resolutions against the recently passed Ordinance of Secession. Tennessee's resolution includes 9 propositions to be embraced as amendments to the U.S. Constitution, regarding recognition of slaves as property, defining slave holding territories, protecting property rights with respect to fugitive slaves, and permanently limiting the power of Congress to outlaw slavery; further resolving, if such a "plan of adjustment" not be acceded to, that the slave states, and any Northern states electing to do so in union with them, may adopt for themselves the Constitution of the United States, so amended, as their own, and sever connections with states "refusing such reasonable guarantees to our future safety."

Title:	Communication from His Excellency the Governor, transmitting certain Resolutions of the legislatures of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia and Alabama.	64 views
Name(s):	New York (State) Legislature Senate Morgan, Edwin D. (Edwin Denison) 1811-1883
Type of Resource:	text
Genre:	Speech
Date Created:	1861
Place of Publication:	Albany, NY
Physical Form:	online resource
Extent:	11 pages ; 23 cm
Language(s):	English
Abstract/Description:	Senate document (New York (State). Legislature. Senate) ; 1861, no. 20. Alternate title: At head of title: State of New York. No. 20. In Senate, February 1, 1861. Caption title. "E.D. Morgan"--Below caption title, page [1]. "Resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States": pages 3-5."Joint resolutions relative to the maintenance of the Constitution and the Union": pages 6-8. Summary: 1861 Tennessee resolution proposing pro-slavery amendments to the United States Constitution and the Pennsylvania resolutions against the recently passed Ordinance of Secession. Tennessee's resolution includes 9 propositions to be embraced as amendments to the U.S. Constitution, regarding recognition of slaves as property, defining slave holding territories, protecting property rights with respect to fugitive slaves, and permanently limiting the power of Congress to outlaw slavery; further resolving, if such a "plan of adjustment" not be acceded to, that the slave states, and any Northern states electing to do so in union with them, may adopt for themselves the Constitution of the United States, so amended, as their own, and sever connections with states "refusing such reasonable guarantees to our future safety."
Identifier:	fauwsb19f31 (IID)
Physical Location:	Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection, Pamphlets: Speeches B19F31
Collection:	Florida Atlantic Digital Library Collections
Subject(s):	Slavery -- Law and legislation -- United States -- 19th century Slavery -- Southern States Secession -- Southern States -- 19th century Constitutional amendments -- United States Constitutional history -- United States -- 19th century United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Causes -- Sources United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861 Alabama -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 Georgia -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 Massachusetts -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865
Persistent Link to This Record:	http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/fauwsb19f31
Use and Reproduction:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Host Institution:	FAU

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