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Massachusetts doctrino n April, Iö38, as eclared by the Legislature, and approvedby overnor Everett: Resolved, That Congress has, by the onstitution, power to abolish slavery and e slave trade in the District of Columa, and thcre is nothing in the lerms or rcumstances of the acts of ecssion by Virginia Maryland, or otherwise, imposing any legal or moral restraint upon its exercise. Resolved, That the inhuman trafile in slaves, carried on in and tfarough the District of Columbia, is a national disgrace, and a national sin, and ought to be abolished.Resolved, Tliat Congress has, by the Constitulion, power to abolish slavery in the territoriesof the United Slates. Resolved, That Congress has, by the Constitution, power to abolish the traffic in slaves between different States of the Union. Resolved, That, the exercise of this power is demandod by the principies of hurnanity andjustice. Resolved, That no new State should her&nQer be ndmitted into the Union, whose öonstitution of Government [sanetions the institution] of domestie slavery." DANIEL WKBSTER's DOCTRINE, OCT. 5. 1840,"1 itere ís no rowKR, direct nr indirect, in Congress or the General Governmenfj TO INTERFERE IN ANV MANNER WHATEVER, in the slightest degree, with the subject of slavery, or the institutions of the South." "These memorable wortls,"6aid Mr. Rives in the Señale, Feb. 22, 1841," are on record. They were taken down at the time, and they have been given to the world under the revisión of the Senator from Massachu setts himself."