I, Thomas J.L. Davis, Move that while the Original Negro Payed Freedom Act is not objectionable assert that with the amendments it is UNCONSTITUTIONAL and ILLEGAL.
1. According to the Pinckney Resolutions passed in May of 1836 "All petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatsoever, to the subject of slavery or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid on the table and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon" Therefore, the Amended Freedom Act is Illegal.
2.Amendment four is Illegal Under the davis act as it would lead to the seperation of freed children from thier parents because no slaveowner would pay to house someone who does not work.
3.Article 5 is illegal under under the Fourth Amendment to the constitution as to remove a mans most valuble property at the same time as the death of thier parent or beloved spouse leaving them poor and devastated most certainly constitutes a unreasonable siezure and to enforce it would require unreasonable searches.
4. Article three is illegal under the 1st amendment as it discriminates specifically against people of a non-christian religion or people who have been unable to be baptized due to circumstances
5. Articles one and two constitute cruel and unusual punishment and are therfore illegal under the 8th admendment for minor crimes that essentially would equate to (if the law was passed) Life Imprisonment for smuggling and bribery/blackmail.
I Must now return to my military command which is preparing for a operation at the Mexican Front, I hope the Supreme court Reaches the right decision. As for the above reasons I am
SUEING in the supreme court the authors of this bill and its amendments in the court case
Davis v Walsh.