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^	MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY___________________________507
encasements are such during the Setting of the Supreme Court that it would not be in my power to make the enquiry necessary to ascertain a true State of the business.
I have the honor to be with great respect and esteem Your most
Obedient	„	„
Thomas Rodney
Georce Poindexter Chairman of the Committee &c A copy from the Original Teste B R Grayson C.H R
jjj^SOLUTIONS BY THE TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE [SF:9 Cong., 2 sess.:DS]
[January 27, 1807]
The Legislature, of the Mississippi Teerritory at a moment when National Anxiety' has stamped with unusual importance the principles and feelings of this section of the union, deem it peculiarly their duty to proclaim to the Congress and the whole people of Considerated iConfederated] America It is therefore resolved unanimously by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives of the Mississippi Territory that they are Attached in the higest degree to the Constitution of the United States—Have the utmost confidence in the wisdom and virtue of their Chief magistrate of the United States—that every project of the Ambitious and enterprising- to dissevre the union or to usurp the prerogatives of Government will Always excite their honest indignation
Resolved unanimously that the uncommon alacrity and Zeal which the people of this Territory have manifested to defeat an unprincipled conspiracy and to maintain the unity and Authority of the American Republic place their patriotism above suspicion and entitles them to National Confidence.
Resolved unanimously that our repugnance to unauthorised attacks \ on the spanish Territories does not arise from any conviction of the j spanish right of possession or from any indifference to spanish out- I rage and oppression and that our respects to the rights and preroga- ( tives of the federal Government is in part at least founded on the ' belief that the federal Government respects and will eventually maintain the rights and prerogatives of the people in the remotest Comer \ of their Territories.35	-•
Resolved unanimously that whilst the claims of the wealthy merchant for spoliations committed on him in the most distant regions of the habitable globe have so justly excited the sensibility and energfy]
« Sw Gaines to the Secretary of War, Apr. 17, 1807, post, p. 546.