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Wisconsin Tribune
Mineral Point, Iowa County, Wisconsin
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Maine Governor Dana refused to sign legislative resolutions urging Congress to include the Wilmot Proviso in new territories' governments and to transmit them to other states' governors, citing opposition to his views on slavery expressed in his inaugural message.
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It will be remembered (says the New York Post) that Governor Dana, disregarding the sentiment of his own State on the subject of slavery, chose, in his inaugural message some months since, to adopt the doctrines of Mr. Cass on that subject. The Legislature took an early opportunity of rapping his knuckles, by the passage of a series of resolutions instructing their members in Congress to lose no opportunity of pressing the Proviso into any form of government to be provided for the new territories, and directing the Governor to sign and transmit them to the Governors of the several States of this Union.
On the 17th a message was received by the Legislature, from the Governor, in which he refuses to sign the resolutions. He says that he would have been willing to transmit the resolutions to 'the Governors of the several States of the non' if they had been presented to him in the ordinary manner; but as they had been sent to him by the Senate for his approval and signature, the message from that body was evidently intended to request him to subscribe to opinions 'diametrically opposed to those he had officially expressed.'
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Maine
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On The 17th
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governor refuses to sign the resolutions
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Governor Dana adopted Mr. Cass's doctrines on slavery in his inaugural message, disregarding state sentiment. The Legislature passed resolutions instructing congressional members to press the Proviso into new territories' governments and directing the Governor to sign and transmit them to other states' governors. On the 17th, the Governor refused to sign, stating he would transmit if presented ordinarily but not approve opinions opposing his expressed views.