...vention, resulting in 167 votes for secession and 7 votes against it. By direction of the convention the president sent letters enclosing copies of the ordinance to Senators Wigfall and Hemphill, and Representative A. J. Hamilton , then in Congress, and to each one of the governors of the slaveholding States. The legislature passed a law and another supplementary thereto, providing for a vote on the ordinance of secession ...