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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
present. It was taken up again February 8, 181, and recommitted. (Annals of Congress, 1810-1811, pp. 12, 25, 27, 33, 129.) Attention was now turned to the admission of Orleans Territory as the State of Louisiana. Mr. John Poydras, the delegate from Orleans Territory, presented a petition from the Territorial legislature praying admission as a State. This petition was referred to a committee of which Mr. Macon was chairman, and a bill for this purpose was presented by the committee December 27th. It was amended and debated in its several stages January 2d, 4th and 10th, and was put on its final passage January 14th, and after a debate of much sectional bitterness, reviving the old constitutional questions of 1803, was finally passed by the House January 15, 1811, by a vote of 77 yeas to 36 nays. (Ibid., 413, 466, 482, 493, 513 to 579.) It was during the debate on this bill that Josiah Quincy, of Massachusetts, in words of eloquence and fire, gave vent to the sentiments whic
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The civil history of the Confederate States (search)
of the United States. The convention passed provisional regulations for continuing commerce and administering State government in all departments, thus securing the people against anarchy. The distinguished commissioners to the United States appointed by the convention—Mr. Barnwell, Mr. Adams and Mr. Orr, reached Washington on the 26th, and on the 28th sent in their credentials with a letter to the President. By the untimely and unadvised maneuvre of Maj. Anderson at this juncture, December 27th, in removing his command from Fort Moultrie to Fort Sumter, spiking the guns, burning the carriages and cutting down the flag staff, the situation was suddenly and fatally changed. This warlike strategic movement caused the South Carolina military to occupy Fort Moultrie and Castle Pinckney, producing a movement of troops under arms and placing them at once in hostile attitude. This movement was made by the gallant Anderson under a rumor that he was about to be attacked. He acted und