ive from them hereafter,
are incalculable; and that they vastly transcend in
importance all other political objects and considerations
whatever.

"Resolved, That it would be folly to deny that there has
been and still is danger to the existence of the Union,
where there is prevalent so much of a spirit of disunion,
constantly weakening its strength and alienating the minds
of one part of the people of the United States from another;
and that if this spirit be not checked and restrained, and
do not give way to a spirit of conciliation and of patriotic
devotion to the general good of the whole country, we cannot
expect a long continuance of the political tie which has
hitherto made us one people; but must rather look to see
groups of rival neighboring republics, whose existence will
be a state of perpetual conflict and open war.

"Resolved, That all the provisions of the Constitution of
the United States--the supreme law of the land--are equally
binding upon every citizen, and upon every State in the
Union;--that ALL laws passed by Congress, in pursuance of
the Constitution, are equally binding on all the citizens,
and no man is at liberty to resist or disobey any one
constitutional act of Congress any more than another; and
that we do not desire or intend to claim the benefit of any
one of the powers or advantages of the Constitution, and to
refuse, or seem to refuse, to perform any part of its
duties, or to submit to any part of its obligations.

"Resolved, That the adjustment of the measures which
disturbed the action of Congress for nearly ten months of
its last session, ought to be carried out by the people of
the United States in good faith, in all the substantial
provisions; _because_, although we may differ with each
other about the details of those measures, yet, in our
judgment, a renewed popular agitation of any of the main
questions then settled, would be fraught with new and
extreme dangers to the peace and harmony of the country,
which this adjustment has happily restored.

"Resolved, That every species and form of resistance to the
execution of a regularly enacted law, except by peaceable
appeal to the regular action of the judicial tribunals upon
the question of its constitutionality--an appeal which ou