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History

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Name: American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.
Author: Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine)

Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine)

Political parties -- United States; United States -- Politics and government

25th. The committee presented their report. It alludes at length to
the present unparalleled condition of things, the reckless course of
the recent Government, and flight of the Governor and other State
officers from the capitol. It declares the offices of Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, and Secretary of State vacant, and provides that
their vacancies shall be filled by the Convention, the officers so
appointed to hold their positions till August, 1862, at which time it
provides for a special election by the people. It repeals the ninth
section of the sixth article of the Constitution, and provides that
the Supreme Court of the State shall consist of seven members; and
that four members, in addition to the three now comprising the Court,
shall be appointed by the Governor chosen by this Convention to hold
office till 1862, when the people shall decide whether the change
shall be permanent. It abolishes the State Legislature, and ordains
that in case, before the 1st of August, 1862, the Governor chosen by
this Convention shall consider the public exigencies demand, he shall
order a special election for the members of the State Legislature. It
recommends the passage of an ordinance repealing the following bills,
passed by the Legislature in secret session, in May last: The military
fund bill, the bill to suspend the distribution of the school fund,
and the bill for cultivating friendly relations with the Indian
tribes. It repeals the bill authorizing the appointment of one
major-general of the Missouri militia, and revives the militia law of
1859.

A resolution was passed that a committee of seven be appointed by the
President to prepare an address to the people of the State of Missouri.

November 26th. Jefferson Davis transmitted to the “Confederate” Congress
a message concerning the secession of Missouri. It was accompanied by a
letter from Governor Jackson, and also by an act dissolving the union
with the United States, and an act ratifying the Constitution of the
Provisional Government of the Confederate States; also, the Convention
between the Commissioners of Missouri and the Commissioners of the
Confederate States. Congress unanimously ratified the Convention entered
into between the Hon. R. M. T. Hunter for the rebel Government and the
Commissioners for Missouri.




                       Inter-State Commissioners.


The seceding States, as part of their plan of operation, appointed
Commissioners to visit other slaveholding States. They were as follows,
as announced in the newspapers:


                           _South Carolina._

 To Alabama, A. P. Calhoun.
 To Georgia, James L. Orr, Ex-M. C.
 To Florida, L. W. Spratt.
 To Mississippi, M. L. Bonham, Ex-M. C.
 To Louisiana, J. L. Manning.
 To Arkansas, A. C. Spain.
 To Texas, J. B. Kershaw.
 To Virginia, John S. Preston.


                               _Alabama._

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History

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.

Cooper, Thomas V. (Thomas Valentine)

Political parties -- United States; United States -- Politics and government

25th. The committee presented their report. It alludes at length to
the present unparalleled condition of things, the reckless course of
the recent Government, and flight of the Governor and other State
officers from the capitol. It declares the offices of Governor,
Lieutenant-Governor, and Secretary of State vacant, and provides that
their vacancies shall be filled by the Convention, the officers so
appointed to hold their positions till August, 1862, at which time it
provides for a special election by the people. It repeals the ninth
section of the sixth article of the Constitution, and provides that
the Supreme Court of the State shall consist of seven members; and
that four members, in addition to the three now comprising the Court,
shall be appointed by the Governor chosen by this Convention to hold
office till 1862, when the people shall decide whether the change
shall be permanent. It abolishes the State Legislature, and ordains
that in case, before the 1st of August, 1862, the Governor chosen by
this Convention shall consider the public exigencies demand, he shall
order a special election for the members of the State Legislature. It
recommends the passage of an ordinance repealing the following bills,
passed by the Legislature in secret session, in May last: The military
fund bill, the bill to suspend the distribution of the school fund,
and the bill for cultivating friendly relations with the Indian
tribes. It repeals the bill authorizing the appointment of one
major-general of the Missouri militia, and revives the militia law of
1859.

A resolution was passed that a committee of seven be appointed by the
President to prepare an address to the people of the State of Missouri.

November 26th. Jefferson Davis transmitted to the “Confederate” Congress
a message concerning the secession of Missouri. It was accompanied by a
letter from Governor Jackson, and also by an act dissolving the union
with the United States, and an act ratifying the Constitution of the
Provisional Government of the Confederate States; also, the Convention
between the Commissioners of Missouri and the Commissioners of the
Confederate States. Congress unanimously ratified the Convention entered
into between the Hon. R. M. T. Hunter for the rebel Government and the
Commissioners for Missouri.




                       Inter-State Commissioners.


The seceding States, as part of their plan of operation, appointed
Commissioners to visit other slaveholding States. They were as follows,
as announced in the newspapers:


                           _South Carolina._

 To Alabama, A. P. Calhoun.
 To Georgia, James L. Orr, Ex-M. C.
 To Florida, L. W. Spratt.
 To Mississippi, M. L. Bonham, Ex-M. C.
 To Louisiana, J. L. Manning.
 To Arkansas, A. C. Spain.
 To Texas, J. B. Kershaw.
 To Virginia, John S. Preston.


                               _Alabama._

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.

American politics (non-partisan) from the beginning to date : $b embodying a history of all the political parties, with their views and records on all important questions. Great speeches on all great issues, and tabulated history and chronological events.

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