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Re: Declarations of Immediate Causes

You want 15 years of documentation in one post? You will be reading for long while. :)

How about the actual vote tally defeating a motion to create a Constitutional amendment, by free-eaters, prohibiting FREE states into the Confederacy. The Confederacy, as here seen, was not solidly behind pro-slavery ideals.

Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861 ..., Volume 1

Page 883-886

THURSDAY MARCH 7, 1861.

The first clause of the third section being as follows:

1. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Confederacy, by a vote of two-thirds of each House; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.

[Started by Mr. Miles]

Mr. Miles moved to amend the same by adding at the end thereof the following words, viz:

"And no State shall be admitted which, by its constitution or laws, denies the right of property in slaves of the African race, or does not fully protect such property by legal enactment."

Mr. Stephens moved to postpone for the present the consideration of the clause and the amendment thereto.

Mr. Waul demanded the question; which was seconded, and the vote having been taken by States is as follows:

Yea: Georgia, Louisiana, and South Carolina.
Nay: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and Texas

[On the vote Mr. Miles' motion lost]

Mr. Harris moved to amend the amendment by striking out the same and inserting in lieu thereof:

"But no nonslaveholding State shall be admitted except by the consent of all the States expressed through their legislatures."

Yea: Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, South Carolina, and Texas.
Nay: Georgia and Louisiana.

[On the vote Mr. Harris' motion prevailed]

Mr. Rhett, at the instance of the State of South Carolina, moved to reconsider the vote by which the amendment offered by Mr. Harris as a substitute for the amendment offered by Mr. Miles was adopted.

Yea: Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, and Texas.
Nay: Georgia.
Mississippi divided.

[The Convention resolved itself in Congress for debate]

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1861.

The Congress having resolved itself in convention, proceeded...

The pending question being on the motion of Mr. Harris to the amendment of Mr. Miles,

Mr. Harris withdrew his amendment.

Mr. Perkins moved to amend the amendment of Mr. Miles by striking out the same and inserting in lieu thereof the words as follows:

"Provided, That no nonslaveholding State shall be admitted into this Confederacy."

Mr. Hill moved to lay the amendment to the amendment on the table.

Yea: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas
Nay: Florida and South Carolina
Divided Georgia

[On the vote Mr. Perkins' motion prevailed.]

Mr. Cobb moved to amend the same clause by adding to the end of the same the following words, viz:

"But no State shall be admitted which, by its constitution or laws, denies the right of property in negro slaves, or the right of the master to recapture his slave."

[On the vote Mr. Cobb's amendment was agreed to]

Mr. Walker, at the instance of the State of Alabama, moved to reconsider the vote just taken.

Mr. Marshall demanded the question; which was seconded, and, at the instance of the State of Georgia, the yeas and nays of the entire body were recorded, and are as follows:

Alabama—Yea: Messrs. Walker, Smith, Chilton, Hale, and Fearn. Nay: Mr. Shorter.
Florida—Nay: Messrs. Morton, Anderson, and Owens. Georgia—Yea: Messrs. Toombs, Hill, Wright, and Stephens. Nay: Messrs. Howell Cobb, Bartow, Nisbet, and T. R. R. Cobo.
Louisiana—Yea: Messrs. De Clouet, Conrad, Kenner, Sparrow, and Marshall. Nay: Mr. Perkins.
Mississippi—Yea: Messrs. Harris, Brooke, Wilson, Clayton, Barry, and Harrison.
South Carolina—Nay: Messrs. Rhett, Barnwell, Keitt, Chesnut, Memminger, Miles, Withers, and Boyce.
Texas—Yea: Messrs. Waul, Gregg, and Oldham. Nay: Mr. Ochiltree.
Yea: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, 4.
Nay: Florida and South Carolina, 2.
Divided: Georgia, 1.

[Mr. Walker's motion to reconsider prevailed.]

The question then recurred on the amendment of Mr. Cobb.

Mr. Stephens demanded the question; which was seconded, and, at the instance of the State of South Carolina, the yeas and nays of the entire body were recorded, and are as follows:

Alabama—Yea: Messrs. McRae and Shorter. Nay: Messrs. Walker, Smith, Chilton, Hale, and Fearn.
Florida—Yea: Messrs. Morton, Anderson, and Owens.
Georgia—Yea: Messrs. Howell Cobb, Bartow, Nisbet, and T. R. R. Cobb. Nay: Messrs. Toombs, Hill, Wright, and Stephens.
Louisiana—Yea: Mr. Perkins. Nay: Messrs. De Clouet, Conrad, Kenner, Sparrow, and Marshall.
Mississippi—Nay: Messrs. Harris, Brooke, Wilson, Clayton, Barry, and Harrison.
South Carolina—Yea: Messrs. Rhett, Barnwell, Keitt, Chesnut. Memminger, Miles, Withers, and Boyce.
Texas—Nay: Messrs. Waul, Gregg, and Oldham.
Yea: Florida and South Carolina.
Nay: Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas.
Divided: Georgia.

[The motion of Mr. Cobb to amend was lost.]

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David Upton

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