Acts General Assembly Passed Extra: Signed (2 results)

viii, 127, [1 blank] pp. Original period binding. The large folding chart at the front is present and there are several newspaper clippings at the rear from the period. Signed by a Colonel for the 31st Regiment of Tennessee Militia. The foldout chart appears to be blank forms that were never used. Interesting piece. This Confederate Imprint leads with Governor Harris's Message of January 7, 1861, denouncing the North's "systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question," and its "actual and threatened aggressions." Deeply resentful of attempts to exclude slavery from the Western Territories, which were "acquired by the blood and treasure of all the States," he employs his oratory to swing sentiment to the Confederacy. But Tennessee did not secede until June 1861, the last State to leave the Union. West Tennessee heavily favored secession; East Tennessee was equally opposed. It came down to Middle Tennessee, which voted to cast the State's lot with the Confederacy. The Acts include a referendum on calling a Convention "to consider the then existing relations between the government of the United States and the government and people of the State of Tennessee." Resolution Number 14 proposes a convention of the slaveholding States for the purpose of amending the U.S. Constitution to guarantee the protection of slave property in all the Territories, and otherwise to protect the security of slavery. The State's detailed Militia Law is also printed. Parrish & Willingham 4129 [1- CA State Lib.]. Allen 5345 [2- TU, TKL-Mc]. OCLC 10721116 [11] as of March 2017. SCARCE. Not Ex-Lib. …

Softcover. Condition: New. Reprint. Language: English. Approximately 116 pages. English: Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1861. Text in English. This volume contains the acts and resolutions passed by the Tennessee Legislature during the extra session of the thirty-third General Assembly in 1861. It includes public and private acts, as well as resolutions, and features messages from the Governor of Tennessee, Isham G. Harris. The document is signed by key legislative figures, including W.C. Whitthorne, Speaker of the House, B.L. Stovall, Speaker of the Senate, and J.E.R. Ray, Secretary of State. The text is organized with indexes for easy reference and provides a historical record of legislative actions during a pivotal period in Tennessee's history. Harris. Book images are non-contractual. This item is printed on demand and ships from our printing partners' facility nearest the destination. These facilities are located mainly in the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada.…