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The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], The Secession Movement at the South . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Proposed National Convention . (search)
Proposed National Convention.
The following is the resolution introduced into the Georgia Senate for a National Convention:
Be it therefore enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the Executive of this State be requested to give notice to the several States of this Union that have violated the Constitution, in their legislative capacities as States, that the contract, as to them, is at an end; and also to those States that have not violated the Constitution, in their State capacities, that Georgia has resumed her sovereignty and delegated powers, but will not consider the compact dissolved as to them, but will most heartily co-operate with them in defending and protecting the Constitution which our fathers gave us, both in letter and in spirit.
And, for the furtherance of this object, we therefore recommend the call of a Convention, without delay, of all those States that are willing to abide by the Constit
The Daily Dispatch: November 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Plan of Secession. (search)
Plan of Secession.
The Columbus (Ga.) Sun suggests the following plan of settling the Secession question:
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The eight cotton States--South Carolina' Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas--shall consult together, and their destiny in this crisis shall be the same; all shall act together; all shall either remain together in the Union, or all together shall go out of the Union.
2. It shall be understood that a majority of the people in these State e first question is, shall those eight States remain in the Union, or shall they together go out?
4. Let there be a Convention or Congress of these eight States; let each appoint a delegation equal to its present representation in Congress--Georgia being entitled to ten delegates.
5. Let the Convention in each State delegate to its representatives to this Southern Congress all the powers that the Convention itself has, which will be sovereign and supreme over this question.
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