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mpress of nearly seventy years of sanction by the highest judicial authority, should be honestly and faithfully observed and maintained by all who enjoy the benefits of our compact of union; and that all acts of individuals or of State Legislatures to defeat the purpose or nullify the requirements of that provision, and the laws made in pursuance of it, are hostile in character, subversive of the Constitution, and revolutionary in their effect. The speech of the author, delivered on the 7th of May ensuing, in exposition of these resolutions, will be found in Appendix F. After a protracted and earnest debate, these resolutions were adopted seriatim on May 24 and 25 by a decided majority of the Senate (varying from thirty-three to thirty-six yeas against from two to twenty-one nays), the Democrats, both Northern and Southern, sustaining them unitedly, with the exception of one adverse vote (that of Pugh of Ohio) on the fourth and sixth resolutions. The Republicans all voted agai