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The Daily Dispatch: April 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
ed, Thornton, R. H. Turner, Tyler. Wise, Woods, and Wysor--87. The following is the resolution as adopted: . The withdrawal from the Federal Government of the States of South Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas, without the assent of the other States, has gives rise to new conditions, and presented questions touching those conditions intimately affecting the rights and safety of the other States.--Among these are the free navigation of the Mississippi river, the maintenance of the forts intended to protect the commerce of the Gulf of Mexico, and the power to restrain smuggling along the interior borders of the seceded States; but the Federal authorities, under the Constitution as it is, disclaim power to recognize the withdrawal of any State from the Union, and consequently to deal with these questions, holding that it is reserved only to the States as parties to the Government compact to take lawful action touching them. On motion