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Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Missouri (Missouri, United States) or search for Missouri (Missouri, United States) in all documents.
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Missouri State Convention.
--Among the resolutions offered to the Convention Wednesday morning and referred to the Committee on Federal Relations, was one moving that a Convention be called of all the Southern States which have not seceded, to meet at Nashville, Tennessee, on the 15th of April.--Another, providing for such amendments to the Constitution as shall secure to all the States equal rights in the Union.
Another, declaring that no reason existed why Missouri should secede, and that it would be highly injurious to do so. Another, declaring that the States having once bound themselves together, could never dissever their connection at pleasuron at pleasure.
Another, that Missouri should adopt a policy according to her true interests, and invite an effort to maintain the Union peaceful and unbroken.
Col. Doniphan offered a resolution declaring that any attempt to use coercion by the Federal Government would inevitably result in civil war and military despotism.
The Daily Dispatch: March 9, 1861., [Electronic resource], The New Senate. (search)
The New Senate.
--The new Senate, which convened on Monday in special session, consists of 29 Republicans, 21 Democrats, and one American, with 18 vacant seats.
The vacancies are, 2 from Kansas, 1 from Missouri, 1 from California, and 14 from the seceded States.
The Kansas vacancies will, no doubt, be filled by Republicans, and those from Missouri and California, probably by Democrats.
Should the seceding Senators return, there would be an Opposition majority of 6.
The New Senate.
--The new Senate, which convened on Monday in special session, consists of 29 Republicans, 21 Democrats, and one American, with 18 vacant seats.
The vacancies are, 2 from Kansas, 1 from Missouri, 1 from California, and 14 from the seceded States.
The Kansas vacancies will, no doubt, be filled by Republicans, and those from Missouri and California, probably by Democrats.
Should the seceding Senators return, there would be an Opposition majority of 6.