Owen, Thomas Mcadory, 1866-1920, [from Old Catalog] Ed
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This is a fact which I not know at the time I delivered the speech which has been 1 by the honorable Senator, The truth is, that I never heard, 1 recently, of the letter which I read the other day of Mr. Calh to a fellow-citizen of mine, Mr. Tarpley. I was surprised w I found that such a letter had been written. In the cours last year — and I say it without intending to cast any imputat anywhere — I ascertained by various evidences, that several { tlemen in my own ^tate had been corresponded wi...th by the Nashville Convention of 1850. — Herndon. 205 tinguished Senator from South Carolina, now no more, on this subject. The letters I have seen, according generally with this one, satisfied my mind that the modus operandi of the convention was more or less marked out by his great intellect." The Mississippi call for the Nashville convention was closely connected with the once famous Southern address, 1 issued by a number of Southern members of Congress in January, 1849. The Mississippi convention which issued that call referred to "the Address of the Southern delegation in the last Congress, to which the resolutions of the central and primary meetings in the State, and the proceedings of the convention which followed them, may be regarded as the response of Mississippi." In regard to this address Senator Butler made the following statement in the Senate : "The gentleman [Houston] has correctly said that the action of Mississippi is referable to, and originated no doubt in, what he calls the Southern address, I state here, on my responsibility as a senator upon this floor, that the meeting of southern mem- bers of Congress which resulted in the Address did not originate with South Carolina, nor was it suggested primarily by either of the Senators or Representatives of South Carolina, And so far as regards my distinguished colleague, [Mr.
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