1867.] OF THE SENATE. 91

Resolved, That we regard the abolishment of negro slavery
as :a fact achieved; to which the peace and quiet of the Coun-
try require that we should bow in submission: that the weak-
ness and perpetual childhood of the negro will in the future
as in the past command our kindest sympathies: that if our
laws do not already, they should provide the amplest protec-
tion for his person, and the acquisitions of his labor; but we
do most solemnly and earnestly protest against any action by
Congress of the United States to assign the negro a social
status or endow him with the elective franchise, as unwar-
ranted by the laws of his nature, and as a direct and uncon-
stitutional interference with the rights of the States, which
ought not and should not be tolerated by a free and sovereign
people.

Sesolved, That as a sound principle of Government, those
entrusted with its administration, should ever be held to strict
accountability for monies appropriated to its support and con-
duct: that there should be continued and unceasing vigilence
and effort to bring its expenses within the narrowest limits
necessary to its just administration, as well for the purpose of
avoiding the corruption attendant upon a lavish expenditure
of public means, as of diminishing the taxation to which our
people have been hitherto unaccustomed, and which bears so
heavily upon them.

Sesolved, That the Governor of the State, be requested to
forward these resolutions to our members in Congress., with
request that they present them to their respective Houses, and
sustain the views they embody.

Which was read the first time.

Mr. Davis, of Caroline, moved to lay the resolutions on the
table,

Determined in the negative by yeas and nays as follows:
AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Billingslea, Davis, of Caroline, Davis, of Washington,	Tome, Trail— 5.
Messrs. Bowie, Brodwater, Compton, Earle, Frazier, Henkle, Jump, Kimmel,	NEGATIVE. Maokall, Maddox, Moles, Stephenson, Stirling, Vickers, Waters, Young — 16.

Mr. Tickers moved that the Resolutions be printed, and re-
ferred to the Committee on Federal relations;