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Mr. Mckean submits a resolution to instruct the Committee of Five on the slavery question. The House considers resolutions on compromise, slavery, and secession.
Resolved, That neither the Federal Government, nor the people or governments of the non-slaveholding States, have a purpose or a constitutional right to legislate upon or interfere with slavery in any of the States of the Union.
Resolved, that those persons in the North who do not subscribe to the foregoing propositions are too insignificant in numbers or influence to excite the serious attention or alarm of any portion of the people of the Republic, and that the increase in their numbers and influence does not keep pace with the increase of the aggregate population of the Union.