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Governor's Message to the Senate and House of Representatives. Nashville. 1861 3 (1861.4)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0224 and id is 1 raw text is: GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Nashville, April 25, 1861. Gentlemen of the Senate, and House of Representatives: THE President of the United States-elected according to the forms of the Constitution, but upon principles openly hostile to its provisions-baving wantonly inaugu- rated an internecine war upon the people of the slave and non-slaveholding States, I have convened you again at the seat of Government, for the purpose of enabling you to take such action as will most likely contribute to the de- fence of our rights, the preservation of our liberties, the sovereignty of the State, and the safety of our people; all of which are now in imminent peril by the usurpations of the authorities at Washington, and the unsm-upulous fanaticism which runs riot throughout the Northern States. The war thus inaugurated is likely to assume an impor- tance, nearly, if not equal, to the struggle of our revolu- tionary fathers, in their patriotic efforts to resist the usur- pations and throw off the tyrannical yoke of the English Government; a war the duration of which, and the good or evil wiich must result from it, depends entirely, in my judgment, upon the readiness with which citizens oi the South harmonize as one people, and the alacrity with which they respond to the demands of patriotism. I do not think it necessary to recapitulate, at this late hour, the long train of abuses to which the people of Ten- nessee, and our sister States of the South, have been sub- jected by the anti-republican spirit that has for many years been manifesting itself in that section, and which has at last declared itself our open and avowed enemy. In the mes- sage which I addressed to you at your called session in Jan- uary last, these things were somewhat elaborately referred 1

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