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- "Proviso," slavery, the tariff, and the war with Mexico. Resolutions of the Legislature of Texas, in relation to the proviso, slavery, the tariff, and the war with Mexico. May 18, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed
- Missouri Compromise Act. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Missouri, relative to the subject of slavery in the organization of new territories or states out of territory now belonging to, or hereafter to be acquired by, the United States. December 21, 1847. Read, and laid on the table
- Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, respecting the late disturbances in Kansas, and the assault upon the Hon. Mr. Sumner. August 14, 1856. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Illinois, in favor of the exclusion of slavery from the territories acquired from Mexico. January 30, 1849. Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, relative to slavery and the slave trade. March 1, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, relative to the introduction of slavery into the territories of New Mexico and California. January 22, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- T. Butler King's report on California. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the report of T. Butler King, Esq., heretofore appointed bearer of despatches and special agent to California. March 27, 1850. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed; and Committee on Printing instructed to inquire into the expediency of printing 20,000 copies extra. April 11, 1850. Ordered that 10,000 extra copies be printed
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Virginia, relative to slavery and the "Wilmot Proviso." February 26, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Mexican War, and slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Vermont, relative to slavery and the Mexican War. February 9, 1847. Read, and committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union
- In the Senate of the United States. December 13, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, submitted for consideration the following resolution. Resolved, that the select committee of thirteen be instructed to inquire into the expediency of establishing, by constitutional provision -- First. A line running through the territory of the United States not included within the states ..
- Resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, in relation to the "Wilmot Proviso." February 6, 1849. Read, and ordered to be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, relative to the recent assault upon the Hon. Mr. Sumner, and the disturbances in the Territory of Kansas. June 16, 1856. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- Tariff, slavery, Mexican War, &c. Resolutions of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, relative to the tariff, slavery, Mexican War, &c. February 10, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table
- Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Texas, relative to the acts of Congress admitting California into the Union, fixing the boundary of Texas, establishing territorial governments in Utah and New Mexico, the Fugitive-slave Law, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. February 6, 1856. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- In the Senate of the United States. December 31, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Powell submitted the following report. The Committee of Thirteen, appointed by order of the Senate on the 20th instant, have agreed upon the following resolution, and directed me to report the same to the Senate, Resolved, that the Committee have not been able to agree upon any general plan of adjustment ..
- Message of the President of the United States, communicating, in compliance with the resolutions of the Senate of the 16th and 18th instants, correspondence between the executive department and the present Governor of Kansas, and between the executive and any governor or other officer of the government in Kansas, with any orders or instructions which may have been issued, together with other information relative to affairs in that territory. December 23, 1857. -- Read, and ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- Extension of slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of New Jersey, relative to the extension of slavery in any territory that may be annexed to the United States. February 26, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, in relation to slavery. February 26, 1849. Ordered to be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, in favor of the passage of a law declaring the (so called) Kansas Code null and void. February 20, 1857. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed
- In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1860. -- Considered, postponed to, and made the special order of the day for Wednesday next, at 1 o'clock. Mr. Davis submitted the following resolutions, 1. Resolved, that, in the adoption of the federal Constitution, the states adopting the same acted severally as free and independent sovereignties, delegating a portion of their powers to be exercised by the federal government for the increased security of each against dangers, domestic as well as foreign ..
- Kansas affairs. July 2, 1856. -- Ordered, that it be referred to the Committee of Elections, and printed ; and that leave be given to the minority of said Committee to submit a report at any time within ten days, and to take additional testimony ; and when submitted, that the same be referred to the Committee of Elections, and printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Rhode Island, in relation to slavery. March 1, 1849. Read, and ordered to be printed
- Dissensions between the North and South. Petition of the committee of thirty-three, appointed at the workingmen's mass meeting, held in Philadelphia, in Independence Square, Saturday evening, January 26, 1861. January 30, 1861. -- Referred to the Select Committee of Five, and ordered to be printed
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of South Carolina, relative to the "Wilmot Proviso." February 12, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Indiana, relative to the admission of slave territory. February 4, 1850. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Slavery in the District of Columbia, &c. Resolutions of the Legislature of Vermont, on the subject of slavery in the District of Columbia, &c. December 31, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- In Senate of the United States. January 27, 1848. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr Bagby submitted for consideration the following resolution, Resolved, That neither the people nor the legislature of a territory have any constitutional power to exclude slavery from such territory ..
- Message of the President of the United States, communicating an extract from a letter of the 22d ultimo, from the Governor of Kansas to the Secretary of State, with a copy of the executive minutes, to which it refers. December 16, 1856. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Maine, against slavery in the United States, in favor of the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, and the repeal of the Fugitive Slave Law. January 3, 1856. -- Ordered to lie on the table, and be printed
- Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Iowa, in relation to slavery, and the admission of Kansas into the Union. January 28, 1857. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- In the Senate of the United States. August 11, 1856. -- Ordered to be printed, together with the views of the minority. Mr. Douglas made the following report. (To accompany Bill H.R. 75.) The Committee on Territories, to whom was referred a bill from the House of Representatives, for "An Act To Reorganize the Territory of Kansas, and for Other Purposes," beg leave to report ..
- In the Senate of the United States. December 28, 1860. Mr. Rice submitted the following resolution, which was referred to the select committee of thirteen on the present condition of the country, and ordered to be printed, Whereas the territories of the United States, and the question of the admission of new states into the Union have caused most, if not all, the agitation of the question of slavery ..
- In the Senate of the United States. December 18, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Mr. Lane submitted for consideration the following resolution. Whereas, in the years 1847-48, the northern states of this Union, by their legislatures, and almost with unanimity, adopted resolutions in favor of what was called the Wilmot Proviso, prohibiting slavery in all the territory acquired from Mexico, and the southern states soon afters passed counter resolutions declaring they would resist that measure ..
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, relative to the application of the principles of the ordinance of 1787 to all the territories of the United States. December 31, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Indemnity and slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Texas, protesting against the relinquishment by the United States of conquered Mexican provinces or states in their possession without indemnity ; and also against any law which shall be intended to prevent the citizens of slaveholding states from taking their property with them in emigrating to said acquired territory. February 28, 1848. Referred to the Committee on Military Affairs, and ordered to be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan, in favor of the prohibition of slavery within any territory of the United States now or hereafter to be acquired. February 2, 1849. Read, and ordered to be printed
- Slavery. Resolutions of the Legislature of Wisconsin, relative to the introduction of slavery into territory, already or to be acquired, an[d] which is now free. July 21, 1848. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Slavery. Resolution of the Legislature of New Hampshire, relative to the territory acquired by the Mexican War and the introduction of slavery therein. January 22, 1849. Laid upon the table, and ordered to be printed
- Alleged interference of the Executive with the action of Congress. Message of the President of the United States, protesting against certain proceedings the House of Representatives. March 29, 1860. -- Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, with leave to report at any time, and ordered to be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Ohio, in favor of the prohibition of slavery in territories of the United States, and the immediate admission of Kansas into the Union as a state. May 5, 1856. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- In the Senate of the United States. Resolution by Mr. Brown, That the territories are the common property of the states, and that it is the privilege of the citizens of all the states to go into the territories with every description of property recognized under the Constitution, and held under the laws of any of the states, & c ..
- Exclusion of slavery in territory to be annexed to the United States. Joint resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Ohio, relative to excluding slavery from Oregon territory, and any other territory which may hereafter be annexed to the United States. February 15, 1847. Read, and laid upon the table
- Resolutions of the Legislature of New Hampshire, respecting slavery. August 14, 1856. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Maine, relative to the extension of slavery, to slavery in the Territory of Kansas, to the admission of Kansas into the Union as a state, and secret oath-bound political associations. May 19, 1856. -- Read, ordered to lie on the table, and be printed
- Resolutions of the Legislature of Massachusetts, relative to the recent disturbances in the Territory of Kansas. February 13, 1856. -- Ordered to lie on the table and be printed
- In Senate of the United States. December 14, 1847. Read, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Dickinson submitted for consideration the following resolutions ..
- In the Senate of the United States. June 30, 1856. -- Ordered to be printed. Motion by Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, to print 10,000 additional copies referred to the Committee on Printing. Mr. Douglas made the following report. (To accompany Bill S. 356.) The Committee on Territories, to which was recommitted "A Bill To Authorize the People of the Territory of Kansas To Form a Constitution and State Government, Preparatory to Their Admission into the Union, When They Have the Requisite Population ... "
- Kansas -- authorizes constitution and state government. (To accompany Bill S. 356.) January 31, 1857
- In the Senate of the United States. March 20, 1860. -- Ordered to be printed. Amendment proposed by Mr. Kennedy to Mr. Davis's resolutions. Resolved, that as the unity of government, ordained and established by the Constitution of the United States, is the main pillar in the edifice of our national existence ..
- In the Senate of the United States. February 2, 1860. -- Ordered, that all the resolutions relating to the questions of slavery and the territories be printed together
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