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A Joint Resolution of the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama, disapproving certain resolutions of the Legislatures of the States of Delaware, Connecticut, Illinois, and Indiana, concurring with a resolution of the State of Ohio, proposing the emancipation of slaves -- and a resolution of the Legislature of New Jersey recommending a system of foreign colonization.

The Select Committee, to whom was referred a resolution of the State of Mississippi, transmitted in a special communication to the House by his Excellency the Governor, disapproving of resolutions passed by the Legislatures of the States of Ohio, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut, Indiana, and Illinois, on the subject of the abolition and general emancipation of persons of colour held in servitude in the Unites States; having had the same under consideration, respectfully submit the following Report:

They conceive that the subject is one in which the States (where the evil complained of exists) are alone interested; that the frequent interference of the the [sic] non-slave holding states in a matter so purely internal and domestic, is alike impolitic and incompatible with the rights and interest of the slave holding States; and that the dictates of policy forbid the too frequent agitation of a question, which the Constitution of the