The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-09
Proceedinge of the State Convention.
FIFTH DAY.

tlOn DY luSPFIlii9 tuO "oiN MY " the words " received' and "to."
 Mir. Garland, of Pulaski, moved to sus- pend the rule so as II convention might act immediately. Carr l.
 The president appointed the following committee to wait on the Governor Tn com pliance with the resolution offered yester- day: Messrs. Floyd, Thomson and Bolin- ger ~,
 Mr. Adams, of Phillips, offered the fol- lowing resolution:
 Resolred, That the committee on ordinances De and they are hereby instructed to prepare ana re mort to this convention at the earliest practicable moment, an ordinance, providing for the immediate and unconditional secession of the State oi Arkan, sas from tie federal Union, known as the United States of America.
 On the resolution of Judge Adams to instruct the committee on ordinance to re- pert one of secession immediately, Mir. j.. F. Johnson, of Desha, said:
 Mr. PREsIDENT-We have been here for four days already; we are as far forward and no further than when we met; agalnst thls I enter my solemn protest, and wlsh the country and my people to so understand.- It is folly to thus delay ma ters; we have come to pass an ordinance ot secession at once, for this every man on this side has been ready from the beginning, been deter mined from the beginning, but we are stay ed-we have yet to get the tlrst lntlmatioh of what the gentlemen on the other slae want or are willing to do, fl not to pass an ordinance of secession. l would ask what else have we come here for? As the gentleman from Jefferson, (Mr. Grace the other day remarked, we have not come to amend thelaws, to regulate the judiciary, ", or to do any thing, urti an ordinance oi secession is passed We have come here for no other purpose, and thus we, on thls slde understand our duty, than toinquire, wheth- CT the manifold wrongs of which we com plain, and for which any and all remedies have been refused, are of sufficient maGni- tude to make our State sever, and forever, the bonds which bound her to the old and broken up Union. From this inquiry, into which we on this side have made every effort to enter; we have been, It seems to me, by the gentlemen on the other side, kept 1 back. They know what We want; but we ] don't know what hey want for thus jar they have given us no intimation. by this time their mind should be made up; Lincoln's inaugural, its spirit and intent, it's desperate resolve to coerce are well known. Dispatch on dispatch have been received; no new lights are expected to shine forth, the whole matter IS now un- derstood, and side by side with understand 1 ing is the conviction that in less than twenty days the country will be plunged in the horrors of civil war. In the face of such imminent and impending evils, it behooves us as rational men at once to determine our course of action. The sooner we get at this. the better. The sooner we understand what these gentlemen are willing to do the better. If they will do nothing let them say so. Beneath the rule of Lincoln we have, for our good name, been bowed down four days too long; our people are resolved at all hazard not to submit; time IS too valuable just now 10 be thus idly passive
 Mr. Garland of Pulaski, suggested that it would be well to postpone the discussion of secession until Tuesday, not that he wanted delay-the gentleman on the other side. for his pat, might introduce a secession ordinance just as soon as they please. Ht aOou1d yote aqainst t scth q light heat ana clear conscience He intended that vote to be monument for himself and those who should come after him.
 Judge Hanly proposed to have the dis. cusson begun to-day at F o'clock.
 Mr. Johnson said that he was greatly opposed to delaying this discussion, which should have begun on the very first day, any longer, certainly not until Tuesday. do.not wish to hurry gentlemen nor to ask them, or seem to force them to do anything they are unwilling to do; but the people whose money we are here spending, require of us quick action. The resolution of the gentleman from Pulaski proposes that we refer the matter to the committee; yet who does not know that owing to the conflicting notions of the members of that committee, this matter-this question of secession, the only question that should occupy our at tention, might there remain for the next two weeks.
 I represent a people, and will endeavor
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