Excerpt from Official Report of the Great Union Meeting: Held at the Academy of Music, New York, December 19th, 1859 Therefore, BE IT resolved, That the Union thus formed constituting, as it does, the closest, most delicate, and import ant relation that can exist between communities of people, de mands from each part a warm and earnest consideration for the safety, prosperity, and happiness of the other; and that whatever policy tends to subvert these ends, is hostile to the true spirit of the compact. Resolved, That the Constitution, the Treaties, the Laws of the United States, and the judicial decisions thereupon, recog' nize the institution of slavery, as legally existing; and that it is our duty, as good citizens of a common government, in good faith to stand by that Constitution, those Treaties, those Laws, and the decisions of that final arbiter of all disputed points, the Supreme Court of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.