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Arkansas Rebellion

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
May
Year
1845
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

The legislatureof thnt state has passed ihe following resolves, which are anoiher item in the war of slavery oa American Liberty. "Resolved, by the General Assembly of theSlate of Arkansas, that free negroes and mulattoes are not citizens of the United States, within the meaning of the Conshtution, which guoranties to citizens of one State the privileges and immu!iilIesot'ciiixtfiioriw2CV?rstates' Resolved, That should M a&jachusetts, or any othcr State,or government, prompt. ed by the same motives which actuated Massachusetts in sending her emmissary to the South Carolina, think fit to send ah agent, for like purposes, to this State, His Excel lency the Governor of this S'ate s hereby authorized, and required, to take the most prompt and efficiënt means of freeing this State of so dangerous and unworthy an agent, and that the Legislatura will sustain ihe Executive in any measu res lie may adopt for the purposes afore said."

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Signal of Liberty
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