Resolutions, address, and journal of proceedings of the Southern Convention : held at Nashville, Tennessee, June 3d to 12th, inclusive, in the year 1850 Page: 4 of 68
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the exercise of the same powers. They made no discrimination
in the protection to be afforded or the description of the property
to be defended, nor was it allowed to the federal government to
ddtermine what should be held as property. Whatever the States
eeal wvith as property the federal government, is bound to recog-
nize and defend as such. Therefore it is the sense of this Con-
vention that all acts of the federal government. which tend to de-
nationalize property of any descrip ion recognized in the Consti-
tution and laws of the States, or that discriminate in the degree
and efficiency of the protection to be afforded to it,or which weaken
or destroy the tile of any citizen upon American territories, are
plain and palpable violations of the fundamental law under which,
it exists.
5. Resolved, That the slaveholding States can not and will not
submit to the enactment by Congress of any law imposing one-
rous conditions or restraints upon the rights of mast-rs to re-
move with their property into the territories of the United States,
or to any law making discriminations in favor of the proprietors
of other property against them.
6. Resolved, That it is the duty of the federal government
plainly to recognize and firmly to maintain the equal rights of the
citizens of the several States in the territories of the United
States, and to repudiate the power to make a discrimination be-
tween the proprietors of different species of property in federal
legislation. The fulfilment of this duty by the federal govern-
ment, would greatly tend to restore the peace of the country and
to allay the exasperation and excitement which now exist be--
tween the different sections of the Union. For it is the deliberate
opinion of this Convention that the tolerance Congress has given to
the notion that federal authority might be amoloyed incidentally
and indirectly to subvert or weaken the institutions existing in the
States confessedly beyond federal jurisdiction and control, is a
main cause of the discord which menaces the existence of the
Union, and which has well nigh destroyed the efficient action of
the federal government itself.
7. Resolved, That the performance of this duty is required by
the fundamen tal law of the Union. The equality of the people of
the several St, tes composing the Union cannot be distubed with-
out disturbing the frame of the American institutions. This
principle is violated in the denial of the citizens of the slave-
holding States of power to enter into the territories with the
property lawfully acquired in the States. The warfare against
this right, is a war upon the constitution. The defenders of this
right, are defenders of the constitution. Those who deny or in-
pair its exercise, are unfaithful to the constitution, and if disun-
ion follows the destruction of the right, they are the disunionists.
8. Resolved, That the performance of its duties upon the prin-
ciple we declare, would enable Congress to remove the embar-
rassments in which the country is now involved. The vacant
territories of the United States, no longer regarded as pi izes for
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Resolutions, address, and journal of proceedings of the Southern Convention : held at Nashville, Tennessee, June 3d to 12th, inclusive, in the year 1850, pamphlet, 1850; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth498594/m1/4/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Schreiner University.