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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1., Chapter 7: Secession Conventions in six States. (search)
idell and his Congressional colleagues, See note 2, page 182. resolved unanimously, that they recognized the right of a free navigation of the Mississippi River and its tributaries by all friendly States bordering thereon ; also the right of egress and ingress of the mouths of the Mississippi by all friendly States and Powers. A motion to submit the Secession Ordinance to the people, for ratification or rejection, was lost. On the day when the Convention reassembled at New Orleans, January 29. an event occurred there which produced a profound sensation throughout the Union. Secretary Dix had sent William Hemphill Jones as special agent of the Treasury Department, to secure from seizure the revenue cutters Lewis Cass at Mobile, and Robert McClelland at New Orleans. He found the Cass, as we have observed, in possession of the authorities of Alabama. See page 175. He hastened to New Orleans, and in a note to Captain J. G. Breshwood, of the McClelland, inclosing one from Secre