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�the [sic] Unites States and of the several slave-holding-states, is beyond the exercise of legislative controul. Your committee further sugests, that if at any future day, the evil complained of becomes too oppressive to be borne, that it will be the peculiar priviledge as well as duty of the slave-holding states themselves to apply such expedients of relief as their information may suggest, and their own interests and safety may require; and in determining the proper time when this great work of policy and benevolence shall commence, they conceive that the states most interested in the result can alone be the proper judges.