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Source: Acts and Resolution of South Carolina (1835) 3.Resolved, That the legislature of South Carolina, having every confidence in the justice and friendship of the non-slaveholding states…. Earnestly requests that the governments of these states will promptly and effectually suppress all those associations within their respective limits purporting to be abolition societies, and they will make it highly penal to print, publish, and distribute newspapers, pamphlets, tracts and pictorial representations calculated and having an obvious tendency to excite the slaves of the southern states to insurrection and revolt. 7.Resolved, That the legislature of South Carolina regards with decided approbation the measures of security adopted by the Post office Department of the United States in relation to the transmission of incendiary tracts. But if this highly essential and protective policy be counteracted by congress, and the United States mail becomes a vehicle for the transmission of the mischievous documents… [we] except that the chief magistrate of our state will forthwith call the legislature together, that timely measures may be taken to prevent [such mail] traversing our territory.

Resolutions are unconstitutional because it ist the against first amendment. It took away the right to assembly and press of the abolitionists. Not allowed to meet. not allowed to print Newspapers or pamphlets and Post office stops abolitionist mail