Resolution relative to the question in controversy between the North and South Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Florida in General Assembly convened, that as friends of the Union we view with most serious alarm the course of our Northern brethren in relation to the question of slavery, a course which, marked by unkindness, wrong, insult and injury, has already to a most unfortunate extent weakened the bonds which unite them and us; which if persisted in in the same spirit can only terminate in further alienation and the inevitable dissolution of the Confederacy, Resolved, That the recently acquired Territory, having been purchased by blood and treasure of which her full proportion was contributed by the South, she and her sons are entitled equally with any other portion of the Union to the enjoyment of the same, this General Assembly therefore believing that Congress possesses under the Constitution no power to pass such a measure adopting similar language to that of the Legislature of Virginia hereby declare it as their opinion that under no circumstances will the people of this State be willing to recognize as binding any enactment of the Federal Government which has for its object the prohibition of Slavery in any Territory south of the line of the Missouri Compromise, holding it to be the natural and independent right of each Citizen of each and every State of the Confederacy to reside with his property of whatever description in any Territory acquired by the arms of the United States or yielded by treaty with any foreign power. Resolved, That the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, involving as it does an exercise of power not granted by the Constitution, and designed as it is as a means of affecting the institution of slavery in the States, against which