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Message of the Governor to the Senate and the House of Representatives. Nashville. 1861 19 (1861.4)

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CHAPTER 2.
MESSAGE OF THE GOVERNOR.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
Nashville May 7, 1861. J
Gentlemen of the Senate
and House of Representatives.
By virtue of the authority of your joint resolution,
adopted on the 1st day of May inst., I appointed Gustavus
A Henry, of the county of Montgomery, Archibald 0. W.
Totton, of the county of Madison, and Washington Bar-
row, of the county of Davidson,  Commissioners on the
part of Tennessee, to enter into a Military League with
the authorities of the Confederate States, and with the
authorities of such other slaveholding States as may wish
to enter into it, having in view the protection and defence
of the entire South against the war that is now being car-
ried on against it.
The said Commissioners met the Ion. Henry W. Hil-
liard, the accredited representative of the Confederate
States, at Nashville on this day, and have agreed upon
and executed a Military League between the State of Ten-
nessee and the Confederate States of America, subject,
however, to the ratification of the two Governments; one
of the duplicate originals of which I herewith transmit for
your ratification or rejection. For many cogent and obvi-
ous reasons, unnecessary to be rehearsed to you, I respect-
fully recommend the ratification of this League at the
earliest practicable moment.
Very respectfully,
ISHAM G. HARRIS.
CONVENTION BETWEEN THE STATE OF TENNESSEE
AND THE CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA.
The State of Tennessee looking to a speedy admission
into the Confederacy established by the Confederate States
of America, in accordance with the Constitution for the
Provisional Government of said States, enters into the fol-
lowing temporary Convention, Agreement and Military
League, with the Confederate States, for the purpose of

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