[Maine]: [Slavery]:

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SIXTEENTH LEGISLATURE. No. 45 SENATE. STATE OF MAINE. IN SENATE, MARCH 1, 1836. THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE, TO WHOM WAS REFERRED THE MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR, COMMUNICATING THE REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS ... A rare Maine slip-bill document resolving that the citizens from Maine and other states should not interfere with the issue of slavery in slave-holding states. The legislature writes:"Any interference, therefore, of a State or the inhabitants of a State with the domestic concerns of another State, is dangerous, as having a direct tendency to create jealousies between the States, and thereby weakening the attachment to the Union, which is our only security against domestic dissensions and foreign aggressions."This is a somewhat surprising position for the state of Maine to have taken at the time. Maine came into the Union in 1820 as a free state to balance the admission of the slave-owning state of Missouri. Also, Maine opposed the admission of the Republic of Texas in 1836 (the same year the present document was printed) on the basis of Texas' position on slavery. It is curious that they would take two seemingly opposite positions in the same year. Still, the legislature printed the resolution and authorized copies to be sent to the four southern slave-owning states mentioned in the title.

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