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firebrand thrown in here, to inflame excitement, and distract the counsels of the Convention. Mr. Slaughter then appealed to his friends from the West to come forward and withdraw this agitating subject from the Convention.--Their object could be better attained at an adjourned session. He hoped the call for the yeas and nays would be withdrawn, and that the subject would be passed by for the present. Mr. Goode said the motion to lay on the table was withdrawn. Mr. Brown, of Preston, proposed to offer the following, with the consent of the Convention, as a compromise of the matter: Resolved. That the President appoint a committee of fifteen members, whose duty it shall be to inquire if it be expedient to change or amend the organic law of the State, and if so, in what particular or particulars, and report thereon to an adjourned meeting of this body, should the Convention adjourn to meet at some future day. The President said there was no question before th