New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . orts to secure the exclusion forever ofslavery or involuntary servitude from any terri-tory to be annexed to the United States, except as ONY AND AS A STATE 97 a punishment for crime. In 1849 the subject mat-ter of the resolutions was repeated, and the speedyabolition of the slave trade in the District of Co-lumbia was urged. As late as the practical beginning of hostilitiesthere assembled in Washington, in February,1861, in response to the call of Virginia, whichwas trying the part of peacemaker, one hundredand thirty-three
New Jersey as a colony and as a state, one of the original thirteen . orts to secure the exclusion forever ofslavery or involuntary servitude from any terri-tory to be annexed to the United States, except as ONY AND AS A STATE 97 a punishment for crime. In 1849 the subject mat-ter of the resolutions was repeated, and the speedyabolition of the slave trade in the District of Co-lumbia was urged. As late as the practical beginning of hostilitiesthere assembled in Washington, in February,1861, in response to the call of Virginia, whichwas trying the part of peacemaker, one hundredand thirty-three delegates of twenty-one States,who met for the purpose of proposing a remedyfor the unhappy controversies which threat-ened to disrupt the nation. This was the PeaceConference, composed of men of national reputa-tion. New Jersey sent as her representatives atthis congress on the 29th of January, 1861, byvirtue of a joint resolution of the House of Assem-bly and Senate, Governor Charles S. Olden, PeterD. Vroom, Eobert F. Stockton, Benjamin Wi\l-c^r7. x^.c^,^yc^^^ iamson, Joseph F, Randolph, Frederick T. Freling-huysen, Rodman M. Price, William C. Alexander,and Thomas J. Stryker. The New Jersey resolutions accompanying theappointment of these representatives were no-table. The preamble recognized that the people ofthe State consider the unity of the government* * * a main pillar in the edifice of their in-dependence, declaring that the govermnent ofthe United States is a national government, thatthe Union is not a mere compact or league, and [Vol. 4] 98 NEW JERSEY AS A COL that the constitution was adopted in a spirit ofmutual compromise and concession by the peopleof the United States, and can only be preservedby a constant recognition of that spirit. Whilethe right of the general government to maintainits authority and enforce its laws in all parts ofthe country was undoubted the resolutions heldthat forbearance and compromise are indispen-sable at this crisis to the perpet
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