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Governor's Message to the Senate and House of Representatives. Nashville. 1861 11 (1861.4)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0225 and id is 1 raw text is: 11 your deliberations, and direct you in the adoption of such measures as may most subserve the maintenance of the rights and liberties of the people, I submit the determina- tion of these matters to your hands. ISHAM G. HARRIS. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Nashville, June 18, 1861. Gentlemen of the Senate, and Hioue of Representatives Since your adjournment on the 9th of last month, the people of Tennessee, acting in their sovereign capacity, and in the exercise of an inalienable right, have, in the most solemn and deliberate manner dissolved their connec- tion with the Government of the United States, and, by the adoption of the Provisional Constitution of the Con- federate State of America, have made Tennessee a mem- ber of that Government. I pause in the midst of the arduous duties which devolve upon me, to congratulate you and the country upon the near approach to unanimity, and the readiness with which the brave and patriotic people of our proud Commonwealth have severed their connection with a Government endeared to them by so many recollections, and to which they had been so long attached, but which had been subverted by gross usurpations and converted into an engine of oppress- ion, destructive of their rights, liberties, and equality, and Vhich in the mere wantonness of its boasted power, demands that these inalienable attributes of freemen shall be prompt- ly, nay, basely surrendered, or maintained at the point of the bayonet. Those who have read and comprehended the patriotiG devotion of our people to the eternal principles of justice, equality, and right; their native love of independence, and their chivalrous deeds in defence of these principles, as shown by the whole history of the State, could not have doubted as to the position that Tennessee would occupy upon the presentation of such an issue. While it is to me a source of regret that entire unanim- ity was not obtained at the ballot-box, in the decision of the vitally important and exciting questions referred to, I have entire confidence that now the deliberate and impar- tial judgment of the overwhelming majority of the people of the State having been recorded, the whole people, for-

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