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That our commissioners at Washington are hereby instructed to use every effort to prevent the adoption of the Crittenden Compromise, or any similar proposition, by the Convention now in session in Washington.
Passed,—yeas 112, nays 27; and the
Governor was requested to forward a copy to each of the commissioners.
After the adjournment of the
House, the members retained their seats, and the
Clerk read the following communication:—
Extract from the Proceedings of the House of Representatives of South Carolina, Jan. 23, 1861.
Mr. Holland offered the following, which were unanimously adopted:—
Whereas a certain Mr. Tyler, of Boston, has introduced a resolution in the Massachusetts Legislature, “that, in view of the great suffering in South Carolina, the immediate consequence of the citizens of that State acting under a mistaken idea of their rights and obligations, and in view of the abundance of this Commonwealth, a sum be appropriated from the State treasury, to be invested in provisions and stores for the relief of our suffering fellow-countrymen of that State;” therefore be it—
Resolved, That the report now current in Massachusetts or elsewhere, that any part of South Carolina is suffering, or likely to suffer, for the want of provisions, is a lie as black as hell, and originated nowhere but amongst negro-worshippers at the North.
Resolved, That the Legislature of Massachusetts be respectfully requested to appropriate the money to the relief of her own suffering, starving, poor thousands.
Resolved, That we can attend to our own affairs without the aid of Massachusetts.
Mr. Speaker,—The foregoing is a true copy of the proceedings of the South Carolina Legislature.
You are respectfully requested to have them read in open session.
March 19.
In the House.—
Mr. Tyler, of
Boston, from the
Committee on Finance, reported a resolve relating to the equipment of troops for active service in a new draft, reducing the sum from $35,000 to $25,000; which, on motion of
Mr. Jewell, of
Boston, was referred to the
Committee on the
Militia, with instructions ‘to inquire and report whether any contracts have been made or liabilities incurred in regard to any of the ’
