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of Representative Massachusetts will show the stand which that State has determined to take in respect to the matters in controversy between her and South Carolina:

 "Ordered, That the Committee 10 whom was referred the message of the Governor upon the subject of the Hon. Samuel Hoar. in South Carolina, be directed to report to the Legislature, resolves to the following effect. viz:

 That Massachusetts is restrained from fnr- ther present action in behalf of her citizens imprisoned in South Carolina solely on ac- count of their color, and from the exercise of her own powers to protect the commerce of her citizens, by her unwillingness to do the slightest violence to the Constitution of the United States, the protection of which she is claiming for her own citizens in the prem ises;

 That South Carolina having, by her consti- tuted authorities, interlered 10 prevent access to tue Courts of the United States within her territory, 1t becomes the duty of the General Government to afford to the citizens of our Commonwealth, while in another State. all the rights guarantied to them by the Consti- tuition of the United States;

 And that Massachusetts now demands, and will continue to demand, that the General Government make such change in the iuris- dictlon of the Federal Courts, or such proyi- sons by law, as will enable any citizen of Massachusetts, who may hereafter be impris- oned in any other State solely on account of his color, to urge his claim to liberty and protection in the Courts of the United States :; and that our Senators and Representatives be requested to lose no opportunity of urging this subject upon the consideration of Con- rress.''