The resolution, as it finally passed, is here inserted.

“Resolved, That the interference by the citizens of any of the states, with the view to the abolition of slavery in the District, is endangering the rights and security of the people of the District; and that any act or measure of Congress designed to abolish slavery in the District, would be a violation of the faith implied in the cessions by the states of Virginia and Maryland, a just cause of alarm to the people of the slaveholding states, and have a direct and inevitable tendency to disturb and endanger the Union.”

The vote upon the resolution stood as follows: 

Yeas.—­Messrs. Allen, Bayard, Benton, Black, Buchanan, Brown, Calhoun, Clay of Alabama, Clay of Kentucky, Clayton, Crittenden, Cuthbert, Fulton, Grundy, Hubbard, King, Lumpkin, Lyon, Nicholas.  Niles, Norvell, Pierce, Preston, Rives, Roane, Robinson, Sevier, Smith, of Connecticut, Strange, Tallmadge, Tipton, Walker, White, Williams, Wright, Young—­36.

Nays.—­Messrs. DAVIS, KNIGHT, McKEAN, MORRIS, PRENTISS, RUGGLES, SMITH, of Indiana, SWIFT, WEBSTER—­9.

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ANTI-SLAVERY EXAMINER.  NO. 6.

NARRATIVE OF JAMES WILLIAMS, AN AMERICAN SLAVE.

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PREFACE.

“American Slavery,” said the celebrated John Wesley, “is the vilest beneath the sun!” Of the truth of this emphatic remark, no other proof is required, than an examination of the statute books of the American slave states.  Tested by its own laws, in all that facilitates and protects the hateful process of converting a man into a “chattel personal;” in all that stamps the law-maker, and law-upholder with meanness and hypocrisy, it certainly has no present rival of its “bad eminence,” and we may search in vain the history of a world’s despotism for a parallel.  The civil code of Justinian never acknowledged, with that of our democratic despotisms, the essential equality of man.  The dreamer in the gardens of Epicurus recognized neither in himself, nor in the slave who ministered to his luxury, the immortality of the spiritual nature.  Neither Solon nor Lycurgus taught the inalienability of human rights.  The Barons of the Feudal System, whose maxim was emphatically that of Wordsworth’s robber,

   “That he should take who had the power,
   And he should keep who can.”