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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 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 an influence does not keep pace with the increase of the aggregate population of the Union.