Journal of proceedings of the Southern Convention, at its adjourned session : held at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 11, 1850, and subsequent days. Page: 23 of 36
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SOUTHERN CONVENTION. 41
Resolved, That we recommend to the Legislatures of the
slave States to pass laws to carry out the views and policy
herein set forth, and that when passed, copies of the
same be !aid before Congress and the Legislatures of the
non slaveholding States.
Mr. Cheves, of S. C., offered the following resolution,
which was also read and referred:
Resolved, That secession by the joint action of the slave-
holding States is the only efficient remedy for the aggravated
wrongs which they now endure and the enormous evils which
threaten them in future, from the usurped and unrestrained
power of the Fedral Government.
On motion by Mr. Claiborne, of Ten., Col. Thomas Boyers
was appointed an additional Secretary.
.And then the Convention adjourned until to-morrow morn-
ing, at 10 o'clock.
FIFTH DAY.
FRIDAY, Nov. 15, 1850.
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Ferguson.
MR. SNEED, of Georgia, offered the following resolutions,
which were read and referred:
Resolved, Though the recent congressional action in refer-
ence to the Texan boundary passed the usual forms of con-
stitutional legislation, and is referred to the State immediate-
ly interested, in a pecuniary point of view; yet, considering
the motives which prompted, and the object sought to be
consummated, (that of wresting from an existing slave State
a portion of her sovereign domain and eventually erecting it
into a free State,) the South cannot but view such legislation
a direct attack, by the North, upon on her rights and inter-
ests; in violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of the con-
stitutional compact.
Resolved, That the States represented in this Convention
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Southern Convention (1850 : Nashville, Tenn.). Journal of proceedings of the Southern Convention, at its adjourned session : held at Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 11, 1850, and subsequent days., pamphlet, 1850; Nashville, Tenn.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth395255/m1/23/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Schreiner University.