222 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [June 10,

The resolutions as amended were then read the second time
and passed by yeas and nays, as follow:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs.

Kilbourn, Sp'r, Maxwell, Winans,
Durant, Bryan, Harrison,
Morgan, Wootten, Thomas,
Rasin, Legg, Wallis,
Welch, Starkey, Sangston,
Briscoe, Landing, Morfit,
Parran, Kessler, Scott,
Compton, Goldsborough, Griffith,
Jones, of Talbot, Warfield. Gordon,
Chaplain, Brune, Mills—31.
Holland,

NEGATIVE.

3Iessrs.

Medders, Mclntire, Wilson,
Ford, Miller, Bayless,
Denison, Routzahn, McCoy/
Quinlan, Johnson, Fiery,
Renshaw, Salmon, Brining,
Dennis, of Som'r, Naill, McCleary,
Stanford, Straughn, Gorsuch—22.
Lawson,

Said resolutions were then sent to the Senate.

The House then took up for consideration the second order
of the day, being the following resolutions proposed by Mr.
Dennis, of Somerset:

"WHEREAS, We hold these truths to be self-evident, that
all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable rights; that amongst these
are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving
their just powers from the consent of the governed; that
whenever any form of government becomes destructive of
these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it,
and to institute a new government, laying its foundations
on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form
as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and
happiness;" and,

WHEREAS, The doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary
power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of
the good and happiness of mankind; and,