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Mr. English and Mr. Florence present resolutions on the Crittenden Compromise. The Committee of Thirty-Three reports.
Joint Resolutions declaratory of the opinion of Congress in regard to certain questions now agitating the Country, and of measures calculated to reconcile existing differences.
[No Resolved, That, in the opinion of this committee, the existing discontents among the southern people, and the grow-ing hostility among them to the federal government, are greatly to be regretted; and that whether such discontents and hostility are without just cause or not, any reasonable, proper, and constitutional remedies, and additional and more specific and effectual guarantees of their peculiar rights and interests and recognized by the Constitution, necessary to pre-serve the peace of the country and the perpetuity of the Union, should be promptly and cheerfully granted. [Struck out]
Resolved, That we recognize the justice and propriety of a faithful execution of the Constitution, and laws made in pur-suance thereof, on the subject of fugitive slaves, or fugitives from service or labor, and discountenance all mobs or hin-drances to the execution of such laws, and that citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.
Resolved, That we recognize no such conflicting elements in its composition, or sufficient cause from any source, for a dissolution of this government; that we were not sent here to destroy, but to sustain and harmonize the institutions of the country, and to see that equal justice is done to all parts of the same; and finally, to perpetuate its existence on terms of equality and justice to all the States.
Resolved, That the faithful observance, on the part of all the States, of all their constitutional obligations to each other and to the federal government is essential to the peace of the country.
Resolved, That each State be also respectfully requested to enact such laws as will prevent and punish any attempt whatever in such State to recognize [arrange] or set on foot the lawless invasion of any other State or Territory.