The American anti-slavery almanac, for ..: calculated for Boston, New York, and Pittsburgh .. . ve limits, pur-porting to be, or having the character of, abolition societies. The following is from resolutions read three times and ratifiedin General Assembly of North Carolina, Dec. 19, 1835. Resolved, That our sisler states are respectfully requested to enactPENAL LAWS, prohibiting the PRINTING within their respectivelimits ALL such publications as MAY have a TENDENCY tomake our slaves discontented. A compliance with this request would makeit ILLEGAL toprint the EIRLE. Nearly all newspapers wou
The American anti-slavery almanac, for ..: calculated for Boston, New York, and Pittsburgh .. . ve limits, pur-porting to be, or having the character of, abolition societies. The following is from resolutions read three times and ratifiedin General Assembly of North Carolina, Dec. 19, 1835. Resolved, That our sisler states are respectfully requested to enactPENAL LAWS, prohibiting the PRINTING within their respectivelimits ALL such publications as MAY have a TENDENCY tomake our slaves discontented. A compliance with this request would makeit ILLEGAL toprint the EIRLE. Nearly all newspapers would be even those- violent pro-slavery papers whose mottoes declare,••The world is governed too much, or I have sworn upon the altarof God, eternal hostility to EVERY FORM of TYRANNY over themind of man, would not be spared. * The following is from resolutions unanimously adopted by bothbranches of the South Carolina Legislature, Dec. W, 1835. Resolved, That the Legislature of South CarIma, having everyconfidence in the justice and friendship of the non-Uaveholding States,. Anti-Slavery Almanac. 41 ANNOUNCES her CONFIDENT EXPECTATION, and she ear-nestly requests, that the governments of these states will promptlyandEFFECTUALLY SUPPRESS ALL those associations withintheir respective limits purporting to be abolition societies, &c. .&cc. From resolutions adopted unanimously by the Leg. of Georgia. Resolved, That it is deeply incumbent on the people of the north toCRUSH the traitorous designs of the abolitionists. From resolutions of Alabama Legislature, January 7, 1836. Resolved, That we call upon our sister states, and respectfully re-quest them to enact such PENAL LAWS as will finally PUT ANEND to themalignant deeds of the abolitionists. The spirit which dictated these resolutions will not rest satisfieduntil the all-grasping spirit of slavery has swallowed up all rightsexcept the right claimed by the strong and the cunning to traffic inthe bodies and souls of
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