714 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 11,

great organic reservation which alone can establish, sustain
and perpetuate a, community of States in a federative system,
and. which cannot be taken away from our system except by
revolutionary force ; and

Whereas, It is believed that four-fifths of the American
people are opposed to any change in their (organic law which
would reverse, vacate, annull, expunge, make void and de-
stroy any of its fundamental articles and provisions so as to

demoralize and brutalize the people by a heterogeneous amal-
gamation and mixture of the Caucasian and negro races in
our body politic ; and

Whereas, The history of.the different races of men teaches
and proves their inequality in physical, moral and intellectual
endowments, and that no two distinct races of men ever did
or ever can carry on, successfully, a common government,
and that all attempts to do so have resulted in the destruc-
tion of those trying such experiments ; therefore be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That ac-
cording to the agreement entered into by the original States
of this Union, and according to the understanding of the
American people for more, than eighty years thereafter, the
fundamental provisions of the same are inviolable, unaltera-
ble and indestructible; and that they cannot, under the
amending power thereof, be repealed, annulled, void, vacated
or expunged ; and be it

Resolved, That all attempts on the part of the Federal
Government, which is the agent and creature of the States,
and all attempts on the part of any State or States, through
their Representatives and Senators in Congress or otherwise,
to reverse, vacate, expunge, annull, or make void, any guar-
antee of State or individual rights contained in the Constitu-
tion, are revolutionary, and are evidences of bad faith, and
are wicked; and be it

Resolved, That suffrage is a question belonging solely to
the States individually; that any State can confer the right
of suffrage upon whomsoever it may please, subject lo the
general laws of naturalization; that no power can take that
right away when granted except the State power granting
it; that no power not interested with the right to withhold
suffrage, has any right to grant it, and therefore, th it the
plea of constitutionality for such a right is a self-evident
and flat contradiction; and be it

Resolved, That the States and people of the American
Union owe no allegiance to any power above themselves; that
they are the only sovereign powers recognised under our sys-
tem of Government; that we have no such word as "culers"
in our political vocabulary; that the States and people,
through their State and Federal organism, "rule" the u-
selves; that those who are selected by the States and people