1. Resolved, That we consider the refusal of the Executive of any State to deliver up, or cause to be delivered up, upon the demand of the Executive of any other State, any person who may be charged with the commission of a crime against the laws of the latter State and shall have fled therefrom, not only as dangerous to the rights of the people of the United States in general, by clearly and directly in violation of the plain letter of the Constitution of the United States, which is in the following words, to wit: “A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the Executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.”

2. Resolved, That each State, as a member of this confederacy, by the adoption of the Federal Constitution, became a party thereto, no less for the better protection of their own than the common rights and interests of all; and as such members of the confederacy, a free State or its citizens ought not to interfere with the property of slaveholding States; which property has been guarantied unto them by the Constitution of the United States, and without which guaranty, this Union, perhaps, would never have been formed.