justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for
the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure
the blessings of liberty to themselves and their posterity;
and when the people of any State are not in full enjoyment
of all the benefits intended to be secured to them by the
Constitution, or their rights under it are disregarded,
their tranquillity disturbed, their prosperity retarded, or
their liberty imperilled by the people of any other State,
full and adequate redress can and ought to be provided for
such grievances.

3d. _Resolved_, That the Constitution of the United States,
and the acts of Congress in pursuance thereof, are the
supreme law of the land, to which every citizen owes
faithful obedience; and it is therefore respectfully
recommended to the Legislatures of the several States to
consider impartially whatever complaints may be made of acts
as inconsistent therewith, by sister States or their
citizens, and carefully revise their statutes, in view of
such complaints, and to repeal whatever provisions may be
found to be in contravention of that supreme law.

4th. _Resolved_, That this Convention recommend to the
Legislatures of the several States of the Union to follow
the example of the Legislatures of the States of Kentucky
and of Illinois, in applying to Congress to call a
Convention for the proposing of amendments to the
Constitution of the United States, pursuant to the fifth
article thereof.

Mr. CHASE:--I have not thought it best to occupy much of the time of
the Convention in discussing the propositions presented for its
decision. I have indeed been impressed with an idea that a decision
upon these propositions just now may be premature.

I have already stated to the Conference that the delegates from Ohio
act under resolutions of the General Assembly of that State, one of
which requires them to use their influence in procuring an adjournment
of this body to the 4th of April next. It is the wish of that State
that opportunity may be given for full consideration of any
constitutional amendment that may be proposed here, and especially to
avoid precipitate action under apprehensions of resistance to the
inauguration of Mr. LINCOLN on the 4th of next month.

I have already submitted resolutions in accordance with the views of
the Legislature, and intended