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Montgomery (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 149
rules and regulations prescribed for the election hereinbefore ordered, the following ordinance shall be submitted to the popular vote. To wit: An Ordinance for the adoption of the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America: We, the people of Tennessee, solemnly impressed by the perils which surround us, do hereby adopt and ratify the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, ordained and established at Montgomery, Alabama, on the 8th day of February, 1861, to be in force during the existence thereof, or until such time as we may supersede it, by the adoption of a permanent Constitution. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That those in favor of the adoption of said Provisional Constitution, and thereby securing to Tennessee equal representation in the deliberations and councils of the Confederate States, shall have written or printed on their ballots the word Representation; opposed, the words No represe
Montgomery County (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 149
Doc. 144.-the Tennessee league. Message of Governor Harris. Executive Department, Nashville, May 7, 1861. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: By virtue of the authority of your joint resolution, adopted on the 1st day of May, instant, I appointed Gustavus A. Henry, of the county of Montgomery, Archibald O. W. Totten, of the county of Madison, and Washington Barrow, of the county of Davidson, Commissioners, on the part of Tennessee, to enter into a military league with the authorities of the Confederate States, and with the authorities of such other slaveholding States as may wish to enter into it; having in view the protection and defence of the entire South against the war that is now being carried on against it. The said commissioners met the Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, the accredited representative of the Confederate States, at Nashville on this day, and have agreed upon and executed a military league between the State of Tennessee and the Confederate
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 149
Doc. 144.-the Tennessee league. Message of Governor Harris. Executive Department, Nashville, May 7, 1861. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: By virtue of the authority of your joint resolution, adopted on the 1st day of May, instant, I appointed Gustavus A. Henry, of the county of Montgomery, Archiar that is now being carried on against it. The said commissioners met the Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, the accredited representative of the Confederate States, at Nashville on this day, and have agreed upon and executed a military league between the State of Tennessee and the Confederate States of America, subject, however, to the recomes a member of said Confederacy, shall be met and provided for by the Confederate States. This convention, entered into and agreed on in the city of Nashville, Tennessee, on the seventh day of May, A. D. 1861, by Henry W. Hilliard, the duly authorized Commissioner to act in the matter for the Confederate States, and Gustavu
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 149
d executed a military league between the State of Tennessee and the Confederate States of America, she Confederate States of America. The State of Tennessee, looking to a speedy admission into the d for the common defence. Second: The State of Tennessee will, upon becoming a member of said Conauthorized to act in like manner for the State of Tennessee. The whole subject to the approval and tions 1 and 2 of the Constitution of the State of Tennessee, which requires members of the General Ae with the Federal Union dissolved, and that Tennessee is a free, independent government, free fromrate States of America: We, the people of Tennessee, solemnly impressed by the perils which surr, who gave reasons, numerous and strong, why Tennessee should not go into Jeff. Davis's repudiatingarchy of Europe!--Knoxville Whig, May 11. Tennessee seceded. Tennessee is disenthralled at la sword. Welcome, thrice welcome, glorious Tennessee, to the thriving family of Southern Confeder[24 more...]
Davidson (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 149
Doc. 144.-the Tennessee league. Message of Governor Harris. Executive Department, Nashville, May 7, 1861. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: By virtue of the authority of your joint resolution, adopted on the 1st day of May, instant, I appointed Gustavus A. Henry, of the county of Montgomery, Archibald O. W. Totten, of the county of Madison, and Washington Barrow, of the county of Davidson, Commissioners, on the part of Tennessee, to enter into a military league with the authorities of the Confederate States, and with the authorities of such other slaveholding States as may wish to enter into it; having in view the protection and defence of the entire South against the war that is now being carried on against it. The said commissioners met the Hon. Henry W. Hilliard, the accredited representative of the Confederate States, at Nashville on this day, and have agreed upon and executed a military league between the State of Tennessee and the Confederate
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 149
itary league with the authorities of the Confederate States, and with the authorities of such other rd, the accredited representative of the Confederate States, at Nashville on this day, and have agreeen the State of Tennessee and the Confederate States of America, subject, however, to the ratificaeen the State of Tennessee and the Confederate States of America. The State of Tennessee, lookinthe Confederacy established by the Confederate States of America, in accordance with the constituti agreement, and military league with the Confederate States, for the purpose of meeting pressing exi the same shall occur, turn over to said Confederate States all the public property, naval stores, ad, Commissioner on the part of the Confederate States of America, subject to the confirmation of thion of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States at the election herein ordered, it shalled. We congratulate Tennessee and the Confederate States upon the mutual good fortune of this aus[18 more...]
Europe (search for this): chapter 149
hem in the dark as to their vile schemes. In June, we are called upon to vote for or against this Ordinance of Secession, and all trains of evil, such as enormous taxes, and the raising of fifty thousand troops! Will the people ratify it, or will they reject it? Let every man, old and young, halt and blind, contrive to be at the polls on that day. If we lose then, our liberties are gone, and we are swallowed up by a military despotism more odious than any now existing in any monarchy of Europe!--Knoxville Whig, May 11. Tennessee seceded. Tennessee is disenthralled at last. Freedom has again crowned her with a fresh and fadeless wreath. She has broken through the meshes of tyranny. She has shaken off the shackles which tyrants and usurpers were fastening upon her that they might reduce her to helpless and hopeless bondage. She has left a Union in which she was no longer an equal. She has dissolved her connection with States bent on her subjugation and destruction. She h
Brazelton (search for this): chapter 149
wman, Stokely, and Trimble. The following is the vote in the House: Yeas.--Messrs. Baker of Perry, Baker of Weakley, Bayless, Bicknell, Bledsoe, Cheatham, Cowden, Davidson, Davis, Dudley, Ewing, Farley, Farrelly, Ford, Frazie, Gantt, Guy, Havron, Hart, Ingram, Jones, Kenner, Kennedy, Lea, Lockhart, Martin, Mayfield, McCabe, Morphies, Nail, Hickett, Porter, Richardson, Roberts, Shield, Smith, Sewel, Trevitt, Vaughn, Whitmore, Woods, and Speaker Whitthorne. Nays.--Messrs. Armstrong, Brazelton, Butler, Caldwell, Gorman, Greene, Morris, Norman, Russell, Senter, Strewsbury, White of Davidson, Williams of Knox, Wisener, and Woodard. Absent and not voting--Messrs. Barksdale, Beaty, Bennett, Britton, Critz, Doak, East, Gillespie, Harris, Hebb, Johnson, Kincaid of Anderson, Kincaid of. Claiborne, Trewhitt, White of Dickson, Williams of Franklin, Williams of Hickman, and Williamson. an act to submit to A vote of the PEOple a Declaration of Independence, and for other purposes.
William Hemphill Jones (search for this): chapter 149
nson, Lane, Minnis, McClellan, McNeilly, Payne, Peters, Stanton, Thompson, Wood, and Speaker Stovall. Nays.--Messrs. Boyd, Bradford, Hildreth, Nash, Richardson, and Stokes. Absent and not voting--Messrs. Bumpass, Mickley, Newman, Stokely, and Trimble. The following is the vote in the House: Yeas.--Messrs. Baker of Perry, Baker of Weakley, Bayless, Bicknell, Bledsoe, Cheatham, Cowden, Davidson, Davis, Dudley, Ewing, Farley, Farrelly, Ford, Frazie, Gantt, Guy, Havron, Hart, Ingram, Jones, Kenner, Kennedy, Lea, Lockhart, Martin, Mayfield, McCabe, Morphies, Nail, Hickett, Porter, Richardson, Roberts, Shield, Smith, Sewel, Trevitt, Vaughn, Whitmore, Woods, and Speaker Whitthorne. Nays.--Messrs. Armstrong, Brazelton, Butler, Caldwell, Gorman, Greene, Morris, Norman, Russell, Senter, Strewsbury, White of Davidson, Williams of Knox, Wisener, and Woodard. Absent and not voting--Messrs. Barksdale, Beaty, Bennett, Britton, Critz, Doak, East, Gillespie, Harris, Hebb, Johnson, Ki
S. Hayward Whitmore (search for this): chapter 149
son, and Stokes. Absent and not voting--Messrs. Bumpass, Mickley, Newman, Stokely, and Trimble. The following is the vote in the House: Yeas.--Messrs. Baker of Perry, Baker of Weakley, Bayless, Bicknell, Bledsoe, Cheatham, Cowden, Davidson, Davis, Dudley, Ewing, Farley, Farrelly, Ford, Frazie, Gantt, Guy, Havron, Hart, Ingram, Jones, Kenner, Kennedy, Lea, Lockhart, Martin, Mayfield, McCabe, Morphies, Nail, Hickett, Porter, Richardson, Roberts, Shield, Smith, Sewel, Trevitt, Vaughn, Whitmore, Woods, and Speaker Whitthorne. Nays.--Messrs. Armstrong, Brazelton, Butler, Caldwell, Gorman, Greene, Morris, Norman, Russell, Senter, Strewsbury, White of Davidson, Williams of Knox, Wisener, and Woodard. Absent and not voting--Messrs. Barksdale, Beaty, Bennett, Britton, Critz, Doak, East, Gillespie, Harris, Hebb, Johnson, Kincaid of Anderson, Kincaid of. Claiborne, Trewhitt, White of Dickson, Williams of Franklin, Williams of Hickman, and Williamson. an act to submit to A vote o
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