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State of Maine. Resolve relating to Slavery.

    Whereas during the administration of this Government, the Slave Power had, for many years, had an almost uninterrupted as-cendency, and has repeatedly violated the constitution of the United States for the avowed purpose of protecting, extending and perpetuating the system of Slavery:  and 
    Whereas, we regard American Slavery as a great wrong to the slave, as being at war with all our professions ofrepublicanism, sub-versive, in its practical operation, of the rights of the Free States, destructive of our best interests and prosperity, unworthy an intelligent moral people, and in its influ-ence, tending to destroy the foundations of the American Union, Therefore
    Resolved.  That it is the solemn conviction of this Legislature, that the question of its abolition in all places where it exists un-der our national jurisdiction, and the question, whether we shall resist its farther exten-sion and encroachment by all constition