2005-11
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A very rare ante-bellum working draft of a proposed resolution for appointing convention members to defend Southern Rights at the Charleston National Convention in March 1860, 3pp. 4to., unsigned manuscript document, Newman, [Ga.], January 3, 1860. Issued by the politicians of the Coweta County, Georgia, the resolution outlines their grievances in being overlooked in the election process to send members to the National Convention of 1860, while also heaping accolades upon Georgia Senator Alfred Iverson for his defense of Southern Rights, reading, in part: "…a portion of the Democratic party of Coweta County, assembled in the Court House today…a committee consisting of Messers who reported the following--preamble and resolutions…at the meeting…of the democratic members of the Legislation, a call was made for a convention…to assemble at Milledgeville for the purpose of appointing Delegates to the National Convention, to be held at Charleston…whereas…that so short a notice was given of the call of said convention, it would have been…impossible for a considerable portion of the County…to have been represented in the said Convention…it further appears to us, that a majority of the Executive Committee who had been only appointed by the State Convention had…published a resolution, calling a convention of the party to meet at Milledgeville…for the purpose of appointing Delegates to represent the Democratic party of the State of Georgia, in the Charleston Convention…a…portion of the Democratic members of the Legislature protested against the right and propriety of the members of the Legislature, to call such a Convention…be it…Resolved that we have reason to regret this decision of Sentiment amongst the members of the party…and will appoint delegates to present us in the Convention to be held in Milledgeville, in March next…Resolved, That we recommend a meeting, on the first Tuesday in February…of the Democratic party of Coweta County, to be held…for the purpose of appointing Delegates to the Milledgeville Convention in March…Resolved, That we do not feel bound by the action of the late Convention…composed mostly of members of the Legislature, whose appointment, in our opinion, was irregular and without the authority…Resolved, That, we are proud of the exalted position sustained by the Honorable Alfred Iverson, our elegant and talented Senator, in Congress, and we indorse, and highly approve the principles, and sentiments avowed by him in debate in support of the Constitutional Rights of the South & in nobly repelling insult and aggression in those rights…we feel proud that every Southern patriot must highly approve of the same…we deeply regret that his able & elegant speeches, recently delivered in the Senate of the United States, on…the Constitutional Rights of the South, have not…been published, in the Democratic papers of Georgia…". Interestingly, Iverson's son fought as general under Robert E. Lee in the Army of Northern Virginia. Worthy of further research. Minor soiling with some ink galling, and fold splits, else very good.
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