Mr. Upham´s Speech on the Extension of Slavery
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Excerpt from Mr. Upham´s Speech on the Extension of Slavery: Together With the Ordinance of 1787 In the House, at 12 o´clock, by special assignment, the resolves concerning the Extension of Slavery were taken up, viz: 1st - Senate resolves, four in number, concerning slavery and the slave trade. 2d - Resolves, six in number, proposed by Mr. Upham, of Salem, concerning the extension of Slavery. 3d - Resolves, six in number, reported by the House judiciary committee, concerning slavery and the slave trade, and submitted in place of the Senate resolves, with the same title. 4th - Resolves, six in number, proposed by Mr. Hopkins, of Northampton, as a substitute for the committee´s resolves. The question before the House was on ordering to a third reading the House Committee resolves (No.3,) which were as follows: Resolves Concerning Slavery And The Slave Trade. Resolved, That, in the present posture of the deliberations of Congress upon the subject of slavery in the territories of the Union, Massachusetts will fail to do her duty if she do not again utter her sentiments upon the subject of those deliberations. Resolved, That Congress has full power to legislate upon the subject of slavery in the territories of the Union; that it has freely exercised such power from the adoption of the Constitution to the present time, and that it is its duty to exercise the power for the perpetual exclusion of the institution from those territories that are free, and for the extinction of the same in territories where it exists. Resolved, That, when Congress furnishes governments for the territories of California and New Mexico, it will be its duty to establish therein the fundamental principle of the ordinance of 1787 upon the subject of slavery, to the end that the institution may be perpetually excluded therefrom beyond every chance and uncertainty. Resolved, That neither slavery nor the slave trade ought to exist in the District of Columbia, and that it is the duty of Congress to devise the most just, practicable, and expeditious mode for abolishing the same. Resolved, That the legislation pointed out in the foregoing Resolves does not violate, but pursues, the compromises between the North and South, that secured the adoption of the Constitution; and that, as our forefathers intended to secure the non-extension of slavery, while they were seeking to establish the Union, so we, their descendants, in seeking to secure the non-extension of slavery, are acting in the very spirit in which that Union was founded. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit copies of these Resolves to our Senators and Representatives in Congress, to be by them laid before the two houses of Congress, as an expression of the sentiments and wishes of the people of Massachusetts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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