Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-10-17
Miss;ssiDpi.

By the following proclamation it will be seen that
Governor Qutman has called extra session OF the
Legislature This is different from the call for
Convention by Gov. Towns of Georgia In the latter
there express act Of the Legislature authorizing
the call but in the former it the of the Governor
alone. Gov. Quitman is a gentleman of talents
brave officer who won aures before the gates of Mexico
He was the prominent candidate for Vice President
the Baltimore Conventional l84S when Gen. w o. But
Ter received the nomination He is native of Duchess
county, New York and is the of German reformed
minister. Originally he was Jackson man. but in the
notification excitement he with Mr. Calhoun but
returned to the Democratic party in 1910. His yolunta
ry and unauthorized call of the Legislature tells,
plainly. where his feelings In part of the
country will the conflict be waged with violence
than in this State The great body of the politicians
and the press are for resistance. Mr. Foote who has
returned the State is determined these
A wide field is before him. If he succeeds it viii be
without the aid of the politicians He has full confidence
that the people will his If they do
will be glorious triumph over fearful odds.
PROCLAMATION BY JOHN ANTHONY QUIT
MAN, GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF MIS-
SISSIPPI.
Whereas, The people CT Mississippi have repeatedly
in public meetings. in popular conventions and legsla
with the other States Of this Union and the free
and enjoyment of the territory belonging in
to the United States and have frequently and publicly
declared their fixed determination all hazards MAN,
tain these rights essential their freedom and equality
find chereas, BY recent acts of Congress- the people
OF Mississippi in with the citizens oil all the
slaveholdng States have been virtually excluded from
their just rights, in the greater portion ALL of the
vast AID rich territories acquired from Mexico in the
late war and thus, by unjust and insulting dscrmina-
tons the advantages and benefits Of the Federal Union
have been denied to them.
And schereGs The abolition by Congress- of the slave
trade IN the District of Columbia and other of the
Federal Government done and threatened leave
people OF the slaveholdng States will cease, until by
direct or indirect means, their domestic institutions
overthrown:
Now therefore, that the proper authorities of the
State may be enabled take into consideration the
alarming state Of our public affairs and If possible avert
the evils which mpend over that the State may be
placed attitude her sovereignty and that the
means may be provided to meet any and every emegen-
cy which may happen:
l, John A. Quitman, Governor of the State of Miss
ssipsi exercising the powers vested by the Con-
sttution do hereby the Legislature of this State
and do appoint Monday, the eighteenth day of Novem
her next for the meeting of both Houses of the Legis
ature the Capitol in Jackson the seat of Government
of this State.
In testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and
city of Jackson the 26th of September, A. d. 1880
and of the sovereignty of Mississippi the thirty
fourth.
By the Governor:
10. BELL, Secretary of State.
j. A. QUITMAN.