Weymouth, South,

Eliza T. Loud, Sec.

Weymouth & Braintree, F. Rhoda H. Perkins, Pres. Sept. 1835. (30) 60

Weymouth, South, Female, Hannah Pratt, Pres.

Weymouth, South, F. Juv. E. T. Loud, Pres.

Hannah C. Fifield, Sec.

Nov. 1835, (13) 125

Betsey J. Pratt, Sec.

Oct. 1837,

Wrentham,

Wrentham, Female,

Susan Mann, Sec.

Wrentham, Juv. Cent,

MR. CALHOUN'S RESOLUTIONS.

The following is a copy of these resolutions, as they passed the Senate of the United States:

1. Resolved, That in the adoption of the federal constitution, the States adopting the same acted, severally, as free, independent and sovereign States; and that each, for itself, by its own voluntary assent, entered the Union with the view to its increased security against all dangers, domestic as well as foreign, and the more perfect and secure enjoyment of its advantages, natural, political and social.

2. Resolved, That in delegating a portion of their powers to be exercised by the federal government, the States retained, severally, the exclusive and sole right over their own domestic institutions and police, to the full extent to which those powers were not thus delegated, and are alone responsible for them; and that any intermeddling of any one or more States, or a combination of their citizens, with the domestic institutions and police of the others, on any ground, political, moral or religious, or under any pretext whatever, with the view to their alteration or subversion, is not warranted by the constitution, tending to endanger the domestic peace and tranquillity of the States interfered with; subversive of the objects for which the constitution was formed; and, by necessary consequence, tending to weaken and destroy the Union itself.

3. Resolved, That this government was instituted and adopted by the several States of this Union as a common agent, in order to carry into effect the powers which they had delegated by the constitution for their mutual security and prosperity; and that, in fulfilment of this high and sacred trust, this government is bound so to exercise its powers, as not to interfere with the stability and security of the domestic institutions of the States that compose this Union; and that it is the solemn duty of the government to resist, to the extent of its constitutional power, all attempts by one portion of the Union, to use it as an instrument to attack the domestic institutions of another, or to weaken or destroy such institutions.

4. Resolved, That domestic slavery, as it exists in the Southern and Western States of this Union, composes an important part of the domestic institutions inherited from their ancestors, and existing at the adoption of the Constitution, by which it is recognized as constituting an important element in the apportionment of powers among the States; and that no change of opinion, or feeling, on the part of the other States of the Union, in relation to it, can justify them or their citizens in open and systematic attacks thereon, with the view to its overthrow; and that all such attacks are in manifest violation of the mutual and solemn pledge to protect and defend each other, given by the States respectively, on