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Proposed National Convention.

The following is the resolution introduced into the Georgia Senate for a National Convention:

Be it therefore enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the Executive of this State be requested to give notice to the several States of this Union that have violated the Constitution, in their legislative capacities as States, that the contract, as to them, is at an end; and also to those States that have not violated the Constitution, in their State capacities, that Georgia has resumed her sovereignty and delegated powers, but will not consider the compact dissolved as to them, but will most heartily co-operate with them in defending and protecting the Constitution which our fathers gave us, both in letter and in spirit. And, for the furtherance of this object, we therefore recommend the call of a Convention, without delay, of all those States that are willing to abide by the Constitution, to assemble on the 8th day of January next, at such place as the several States shall think most available, for the purpose of forming a Union; and that the several States call Conventions of their people to ratify their action in the same manner and form that the present Constitution was ratified; or in such other manner as the people of the several sovereign States shall think proper.

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