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Governor's Message to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee. Nashville. 1861 1 (1861.1)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactstn0232 and id is 1 raw text is: GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, NASHVILLE, January 7, 1861. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives: THE ninth section of the third article of the Constitution, pro- vides that, on extraordinary occasions, the Governor may convene the General Assembly. Believing the emergency contemplated, to exist at this time, I have called you together. In welcoming you to the capitol of the State, I can but regret the gloomy auspices under which we meet. Grave and momentous issues have arisen, which, to an unprecedented degree, agitate the public mind and imperil the perpetuity of the Government. The systematic, wanton, and long continued agitation of the slavery question, with the actual and threatened aggressions of the Northern States and a portion of their people, upon the well-defined constitutional rights of the Southern citizen; the rapid growth and increase, in all the elements of power, of a purely sectional party, whose bond of union is uncompromising hostility to the rights and institutions of the fifteen Southern States, have produced a crisis in the affairs of the country, unparalleled in the history of the past, resulting already in the withdrawal from the Confederacy of one of the sovereignties which composed it, while others are rapidly prepar- ing to move in the same direction. Fully appreciating the impor- tance of the duties which devolve upon you, fraught, as your action must be, with consequences of the highest possible importance to the people of Tennessee; knowing that, as a great Commonwealth,. our own beloved State is alike interested with her sisters, who have resorted, and are preparing to resort, to this fearful alternative, I have called you together for the purpose of calm and dispassionate deliberation, earnestly trusting, as the chosen representatives of a free and enlightened people, that you will, at this critical juncture ot: our affairs, prove yourselves equal to the occasion which has called for the exercise of your talent and patriotism. 1

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