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An Act to provide for a Convention of the people of the State of Mississippi. 1850 25 (1850.11)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0243 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI. CHAPTER 1. AN ACT to provide for a Convention of the people of the State of Mississippi. WIIEREAS, the Legislation of the Congress of Preamble the United States, controlled, as it was, at its lastrecitingthe dominnt o theaction of session, by t dominant majority, regardless of the ones constitutional rights of the slaveholding States and upon the reflecting the will of a section whose population are slavery hostile in feelings and opposed in principle to a long question. established and cherished institution of this State and our sister States of the South, affords alarming evidence of a settled purpose on the part of said ma- jority to destroy said institution and subvert the sov- ereign power of this and the other slaveholding States: and whereas it is becoming and proper that a sovereign State should promptly resort to the most efficient means for the maintenance of its sovereign- ty and the preservation of its constitutional rights, as a member of the confederacy when assailed, by the exercise of the highest power recognised under our Republican form of Government: the expressed will of the sovereign people:-Therefore, . SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of Delegates the State of Mississippi, That an election for dele. to a con. gates to a convention of the people of the State of vention to Mississippi, shall be' held in the several counties be elected. thereof, on the first Monday and day following in the month of September, in the year eighteen hun- dred and fifty-one, that said election shall be held at all the precincts establised by law, and shall be managed and conducted by the sheriffs or other How elec. ion ito be proper officers of the counties respectively, in the conducted. same manner and according to the same rules and regulations as are prescribed by law for the elec- tion of members of the Legislature: And it is here- by declared to be the duty of the Governor to issue

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