The Sectional Controversy Or Passages in the Political History of the United S
The Sectional Controversy Or Passages in the Political History of the United S
William Chauncey Fowler
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Various passions agitated them — some violent. Ex- treme propositions were suggested, of which Mr. ItiiETT, of South Carolina, in a letter to his constituents, gave a full ac- count of his o"\\'n — thus : " In a private and friendly letter to the editor of the Charles- ton Mercur}", amongst other events accompanying the memor- able secession of the Southern members from the hall of the House of Representatives, I stated to him, that I had prepared two resolutions, drawn as amendments to the mot...ion of the member from Yermont, whilst he was discussing the institution •of slavery in the South, ' declaring that the Constitution having failed to protect the South in the peaceable possession and en- joyment of their rights and peculiar institutions, it was expe- dient that the Union should be dissolved ; and the other, ap- pointing a committee of two members from each State to report upon the best means of peaceably dissolving it. ' Tliey were intended as amendments to a motion, to refer with instructions to report a bill, abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia.
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