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Alabama resolutions on the subject of domestic slavery

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Address and resolutions adopted by the Alabama legislature January 9, 1836. The document complains of abolitionist "sending to our country their agents and incendiary pamphlets and publications, lighting up fires of discord in the bosom of our slave population..." It also states that "The harmony of the States and the durability of the Union forbid any intermeddling upon this subject, slavery in the United States is local and sectional. It is con...
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Clay, Clement Comer, 1789-1866
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