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![handle is hein.slavery/ssactsms0244 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF MISSISSIPPI.
CHAPTER 20.
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS of the Legislature of the State
of Mississippi, in relation to our Senators and Representatives in
Congress.
WHEREAS, in a special Message of the Governor of
this State, bearing date the 11th of Feb. 1850, the
following communication from the Senators and
Representatives of Mississippi, in the Congress
of the United States, was presented to th Legis-
lature then in Session, to wit:
WASHINGTON, January 21, 1850.
His txcellency:
JNo. A. QUITMAN, Governor, &c., &r.
Sir: We, the Senators and Representatives, in
Congress from Mississippi, feel it incumbent upon
us to advise you and through you, our common con-
stituents, that we have a well defined opinion that
California will be admitted as a State of this Union,
during the present session of Congress. The Pres-
ident earnestly recommended it, and we cannot be
mistaken, in supposing that a majority of both
Houses of Congress will be found to vote for it-
our individual positions have Undergone no change.
We regard the proposition to admit California as a
State under all the circumstances of her application,
as an attempt to adopt the Wilmot Proviso in
another form. But separated, as we are, from our
constituents, and having no convenient means of
consulting them as to their views on the new phase
of this perplexing question, we desire, through you,
to submit the single fact to the people and the legis-
lature, that California will most likely obtain admis-
sion into the Union with her constitutional prohibi-
tion of slavery; and we beg leave to add, that we
shall be greatly pleased to have such expression of
opinion by the Legislature, the Governor, and if
practicable, by the people, as shall clearly indicate
the course which Mississippi will deem it her duty to
pursue in this new emergency.
Very respectfully, your ob't servt's,
(Signed,] JEFF. DAVIS,
H. S. FOOTE,
J. THOMPSON,
W. S. FEATHERSTON,
WM. McWILLIE,
A. G. BROWN.
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