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Maine State Archives
Identifier
213567-F002
Exact Creation Date
6-13-1848
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Maine Legislature, "1848 Report of the Minority of the Joint Select Committee Regarding Slavery in Newly Acquired Territory" (1848). 1764-1865. 48.
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Dissenting minority report regarding the issue of slavery in new territories, stating that the issue is "purely national in its character, demanding no legislative action on the part of this State, the undersigned...cannot regard its agitation here otherwise than as attended with no beneficial results; as a serious and useless interruption of the ordinary and appropriate business of the Legislature, and as calculated to prolong the session and waste the money of the people in the illegitimate consideration of a question solely and entirely within the province of the national Legislature..."