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The Evansville Daily Journal
Evansville, Vanderburgh County, Indiana
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On the 19th inst., the New York Legislature's House passed a Senate resolution by 74-16 vote after debate, instructing senators and requesting representatives to end the slave-trade in the District of Columbia to uphold constitutional liberty.
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Resolved, That as the Federal Constitution was formed and adopted expressly to secure the blessings of Liberty to the People of the United States and their posterity, therefore the Federal Government ought to relieve itself from all responsibility for the existence or continuance of Slavery or the Slave-Trade wherever it has the constitutional power over those subjects, and our Senators in Congress are hereby instructed, and our Representatives are requested, to use their best efforts to procure the passage of laws that will effectually and forever put an end to the Slave-Trade in the District of Columbia.
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N. York
Event Date
19th Inst.
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passed by a vote of 74 to 16, after a long and fiery debate
Event Details
The resolution, which had passed the Senate, passed the House of the N. York Legislature. It resolves that the Federal Government should end Slavery and the Slave-Trade where constitutionally possible, instructing Senators and requesting Representatives to procure laws ending the Slave-Trade in the District of Columbia.