Alfred H. Stone Collection
Volume: 29

6. Massachusetts, House, Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, Passed January 12, 1861 House no. 9 (N.p., [1861]). (4 p.)

Transmission of nine resolutions passed by the Ohio legislature in response to the secession of several Southern states. These resolutions reaffirm Ohio’s loyalty to the Union and assert that “the powers and authority of the National Government must be maintained, and the laws of Congress faithfully enforced, in every State and Territory, until repealed by Congress or adjudged to be unconstitutional by the proper judicial tribunal; . . .”