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iEia MT O THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE ON
FEDERAL AND STATE RELATIONS.
Mu. PIRESIDENT-T e' l joint standing committee on federal and
State relations, to whom was referred so much of the Governor's
message, as relates to the subject of slavery, and the unhappy
agitation of it, which at present distracts the councils of the na-
tion, and threatens the dissolution of our Union, as a confederacy
of States, have had the subject under consideration, and have in-
.structed me to make the following report:
We have arrived at a period in the political existence of our
country, when the fears of the patriot and philanthropist may well
be excited lest the noblest fabric of constitutional government on
earth may, ere long, be laid in ruins by the elements of discord,
engendered by .an unholy lust for power, and the fell spirit of
fanaticism acting upon the minds of our brethren of the non-slave
holding States, and that, beneath its ruins will be forever buried(
the hopes of an admiring world, for the political regeneration u;
enslaved millions.
The fact can no longer be disguised, that our brethren of the
iree States, so called, disregarding the compromises of the consti-
tution-compromises without which, it never wo uld have received
the sanction of the slave-holding States, are determined to pursue
toward those States a course of policy, and to adopt a system of
legislation by Congress, destructive of their best rights and most
cherished domestic institutions. In vain have the citizens of the
lave States appealed to their brethren of their fiee States, in a
spirit of brotherly love, and devotion to that constitution, tianied
by our fathers and cemented by their blood, as a coinnon shield
and protection for the rights of all their decendants.
In vain have they invoked the guarantees of. that sacred instru.
ment, as a barrier to the encroachments of their brethren upona
their rights. The spirit of forbearance and concession, which has
been for more than thirty years manifsted and acted on by the
slave-holding States, has but strengthened the determination of
their northern brethren, to fasten upon them a system of lcgisla-
tion in regard to their peculiar domestic relations, as fatal in its
effects to their prosperity and haplpines as members of the con-
ibderacy, as it is unjust and contrary to the principles and provi-
sions of the constitution.
Slavery, as it exists in the southern States, recognised and pro
tected by the constitution of the United States, is a'domestic rela-
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[Mississippi Legislature Committee on State and Federal Relations]. Report on the Joint Select Committee on Federal and State relations, pamphlet, 1849; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth395250/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Schreiner University.