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State of Maine In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty seven Resolves in relation to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Dred Scott. pronouncing United States from any control of the question of Slavery within the territories of the United States, either through Congress or local governments instituted under the authority of Congress, or otherwise and,

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Whereas, such extra-judicial [stricken] decree subordinates the political power and interest of the American people to the [illegible] and ambition of a few thousand slave-holders, who are thereby enabled to carry the obvious institution of Slavery wherever the national power extends, and [?] pre-dooms all territory which the United States may hereafter acquire by purchase or otherwise, to a law of slavery as irrepealable as the organic constitution of the Country: and,

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Whereas, Such extra-judicial [stricken] decree of a geographical majority of the Supreme