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The Daily Dispatch: December 29, 1860., [Electronic resource], Republican "Invincible" and the inauguration of Lincoln. (search)
dets at West Point, from Alabama, have resigned. A bout seventy-five Congressmen from the border States met in caucus to-night--Mr. Crittenden, Chairman, and Colfax and Barrett Secretaries. Mr. Corwin's proposition was offered by Mr. Barrett. To this there were eleven amendments to the Constitution offered; one by Mr. Pryoruld be equally unconstitutional and impolitic, and the destruction of Republican liberty; one by Mr. Vallandigham, substituting the Crittenden resolutions; one by Colfax, that the laws of the Union should be enforced, and the Union of the States maintained, and that it is the duty of the President to protect the U. S. property withe Union under the Constitution as a paramount consideration. After a desultory debate, in which Messrs. Cox, Pryer, Smith of Va., Jenkins, Sherman, Stanton, Colfax, Noe, Hinchman, Montgomery, McClernand, and Harris of Va., participated, all pending propositions were, on motion of the last-named gentleman, referred to a commi