_Report and resolution, 1818._
Your committee are of opinion that such parts of said memorials and
petitions as ask this General Assembly to aid the Federal Government in
devising and executing a plan for colonizing, in some distant country,
the free people of color in the United States, are reasonable; and,
for the purpose of effecting the object which they have in view, the
committee have draughted a resolution, which accompanies this report, the
adoption of which they would recommend.
Mr. Willis, from the same committee, submitted the following resolution,
which was read and adopted:
_Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee_, That the
Senators in Congress from this State be, and they are hereby, instructed,
and that the Representatives be, and they are hereby, requested, to
give to the Government of the United States any aid in their power in
devising and carrying into effect a plan which may have for its object
the colonizing, in some distant country, the free people of color who are
within the limits of the United States, or within the limits of any of
their Territories.