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More Senators join the Senate. Mr. Green submits a resolution for consideration on the slavery question.
Resolved, That the Committee on the Judiciary be instructed to inquire into the propriety of providing by law for establishing an armed police force at all necessary points along the line separating the slaveholding from the non-slaveholding States, for the purpose of maintaining the general peace between the States, of preventing the invasion of States by citizens of another, and also for the efficient execution of the fugitive slave laws.