conceded to Great Britain without a manifest servile submission, unworthy a free nation; that its exercise cannot be permitted, without as well a sacrifice of national independence as a prostration of that personal liberty guarantied by the Constitution to every citizen of the Republic; and therefore our Government should require a complete and entire abandonment of such claim by the British authorities, henceforth and forever.

2. Resolved, That any attempt to detain and search our vessels, by British cruisers, should be held and esteemed an unjustifiable outrage on the part of the Queen's Government; and that any such outrage, which may have occurred since Lord Aberdeen's note to our envoy at the Court of St. James, of date October thirteen, eighteen hundred and forty-one, (if any,) may well be deemed, by our Government, just cause of war.

3. Resolved, That the Legislature of the State, in view of the late murderous insurrection of the slaves on board the Creole, their reception in a British port, the absolute connivance at their crimes, manifest in the protection extended to them by the British authorities, most solemnly declare their firm conviction that, if the conduct of those authorities be submitted to, compounded for by the payment of money, or in any other manner, or atoned for in any mode except by the surrender of the actual criminals to the Federal Government, and the delivery of the other identical slaves to their rightful owner or owners, or his or their agents, the slaveholding States would have most just cause to apprehend that the American flag is powerless to protect American property; that the Fede ral Government is not sufficiently energetic in the maintenance and preservation of their peculiar rights; and that these rights, therefore, are in imminent danger.

4. Resolved, That the restitution of the slave property, spoken of in the preceding resolve, and the surrender of the criminals, ought to be imperatively demanded of the British authorities; that such demand should be enforced at all hazards; and that it should never be suffered to slum. ber, nor, for a moment, be relinquished.

5. Resolved, That his Excellency, the Governor, be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing p camble and resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress.

ROBERT W. ROBERTS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. SPEIGHT,

Approved February 26, 1842.

President of the Senate.

T. M. TUCKER.

I, Lewis G. Gallaway, Secretary of State of the State of Mississippi, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolutions of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, in reference to the right of search and the case of the American brig Creole, approved February 26, 1842, is a just and true copy of the original act filed in my office.

Given under my hand and seal of office, this the 15th day of March, 1842. LEWIS G. GALLAWAY, Sec. of State.

2d Session.

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE-POSTAGE IN NATIONAL CURRENCY-REDUCE POSTAGE, &c.

RESOLUTIONS

OF

THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

In relation to the rates of postage.

MAY 10, 1842.

Referred to the Committee on Post Office, &c., and ordered to be printed.

Whereas it has been deemed the true and correct policy of all governments to encourage the home circulation of their own national currency, and as our own Government has, by repeated acts of Congress, for the increase of the number and regulation of the mints of the United States, caused to be coined large amounts in dimes and half dimes, which have displaced the Spanish coin, and now constitute the general change circulation and whereas the present acts of Congress relative to the Post Office Department affix rates of postage in Spanish coin, in opposition to the real policy of the country, and detrimental to its interests, by causing annoyance and embarrassment to citizens of every part of the Union: Therefore,

Be it resolved by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That our Senators in Congress be, and they are hereby, instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use all honorable exertions to have the rates of letter postage so changed as to be collectable only in the Federal currency, and thus dispense with the use of any foreign coin.

Be it further resolved, That it is the opinion of this body that a reduction of the rates of letter postage, and an abridgment of the franking privilege, would be conducive to the best interest of our common country, as a means of encouraging the dissemination of knowledge and of friendly intercourse between the different portions of the United States, while at the same time it would diminish but little, if any, the revenues arising from that Department of the Government.

Be it further resolved, That the Executive of this State be requested to forward a copy of the above preamble and resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives.in Congress.

ROBERT W. ROBERTS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. SPEIGHT,

President of the Senate.

Approved February 22, A. D. 1842.

T.M. TUCKER.

I, Lewis G. Gallaway, Secretary of State of the State of Mississippi, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolutions to Congress, in relation to the rates of postage, approved February 22, 1842, are a just and true copy of the original resolutions filed in my office.

Given under my hand and seal of office this the 15th day of March, 1842. LEWIS G. GALLAWAY, Secretary of State.

2d Session.

MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE-ANNEXATION OF TEXAS TO THE UNITED STATES.

RESOLUTIONS

OF

THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI

IN RELATION

To the annexation of Texas to the United States.

MAY 10, 1842.

Read, and laid upon the table.

Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use their best exertions to procure the annexation of Texas to the United States, and that the same constitute one or more sovereign States of this Union.

Be it further resolved, That his excellency the Governor be requested to forward to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress a copy of these resolutions, and to the Governors of the several States, with a request that the same be laid before the Legislatures of the several States.

ROBERT W. ROBERTS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. J. SREIGHT,

Approved February 25, A. D. 1842.

President of the Senate.

T. M. TUCKER.

1, Lewis G. Gallaway, Secretary of State of the State of Mississippi, do hereby certify that the foregoing resolutions to Congress, in relation to the annexation of Texas to the United States, are a just and true copy of the original resolutions filed in my office.

Given under my hand and seal of State this the 13th day of March, 1842.

LEWIS G. GALLAWAY,
Secretary of State.