The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-03-23
MISSOURI CONVENTION


ST.. LOUIS, March 22-In convention yes
terday, Mr.. Henderson, chairman of the
committee to which was referred the COM
munication of the Commissioner from
Georgia, presented a long report, declaring
against secession and exhortinQ Georgia and
other seeding States to desist from the rev.
dictionary measures commenced by them,
and unite their voice with ours in restoring
peace and cementing the Union. In other
respects the report does not materially differ
from that of the committee on federal rela-
tions.
Mr.. Birch presented minority report de-
nying the legal right of secession, but re-
cognizing the right of revolution, while de-
ploring the sectional disregard of duty, we
Will not despair of future justice till our COM
plant shall have heen specifically and una
vailingIy submitted to the northern people.
That property in slaves is a constitutional
right and if the general government impairs
that right, the slayeholding States should
be found united in its defense, and in such
events as may legitimately follow, Missouri
will share the danger sisterStates.
Both reports were ordered to be printed
and made the special order for the third
Monday in December.
The resolution providing for the election
by the convention of seven delegates to the
border state convention was adopted. Ad-
journed.
ST. LOUIS, March 2O.-In the Convention
this morning, one from each Congressional
District was elected to call the Convention
together previous to the third Monday in
December, if public exigency requires it.
The following gentlemen were elected
! delegates to the Border States Convention:
Hamilton z. Gamble, JnO. B. Henderson,
VIM. A. Hall, Jas. H. Moss, VIM. Douglas,
Littlebury Hendricks, and w. G.. Pomeroy.
Resolutions were adopted instructing the
present Convention to transmit certified
copy of the proceedings to the President of
the United States and the Governors of
each State.
Adjourned till the Sd Monday in Deem
Der.
The following, from an editorial in the
Republican, is a very fair resume of the
| proceedings of the Convention:
! VOICE. Missouri has spoken through
the Convention called for that purpose
That voice has pronounced that further
/ concessions should be made with a view
to the restoration of the union of the States.
| These concessions should have the Crittenden
! resolutions for them; but it declares the
! Union would be imperiled by the use of
force on the part of the Federal Govern
ment against the people of the. Seeded
| States, and specially advises that the Fede-
raj troops be withdrawn from States where
collision was threatened. Firm and steady in
| its expressions, devoted to the idea of
union, it declares for a National Gonven-
| ton in hopes that its deliberations may re-
suit in measures which will secure that OBJ
ject. The same voice consistently pro-
! nounces there is at present no adequate cause
| c. fba of
| this time to pledge Missouri for secession,
even in the event the rest of the Border
States secede, or no plan of adjustment be
aeceded to by the North. .-.
The inference to be drawn from the ac-
ton of the convention, is that Missouri is
in favor of every peaceabe mode of adjust
ment calculated to call back the seeded
States, and in default of obtaining such a
measure, she favors steps for bringing
about peaceable separation between the
Union and Southern Confederacy, also her
mind is to a suspense as the question of re-
firing from the Union upon the happening O
contingencies which have been mentioned
New YoRK, March 22.-The Posts
Washington correspondent says that th,
Secretary of the Treasury has decided t.
advertise for an 5000, 900 loan. a-
: ThelArago brought S4I5, 0G0 in specie.
The Commercials Washington despatch
, says A. H. Schultz has been appointed Mar
shall, vice Rynders.
. Seward has written letter to the South
ern Commissioners, reviewing the entir,
ground of misunderstanding with asview O
restoring harmony, closing with the recon-
mendation of a National Convention. -
The government has received. information
: of plot to revolutionize California and Or
egon, duplicating Gen. Johnston and othe