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order to frame a revisional as a permanent Government, upon the principles of the Government of the United States, be it also resolved by the people of Alabama, in convention assembled, that the people of the States of Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, be and they are hereby invited to meet the people of the State of Alabama, by their delegates in convention, on the 4th day of February next in Montgomery, in the State of Alabama, for the purpose of consultation with each other. as to the most effectual mode of securing concerted, harmonious action in whatever measures may be deemed most desirable for the common peace and security. And be it further resolved, That the President of this convention be and he is hereby instructed to transmit forthwith a copy of the foregoing preamble, ordinance and resolutions to the Governors of the several States named in the said
Doc. 32.--delegates to the Montgomery Convention, Alabama, Feb. 4. Alabama. Robert H. Smith,Richard W. Walker, Colin J. McRae,John Gill, W. R. Chilton,S. F. Hale, David P. Lewis,Thomas Fearn, J. L. M. Curry. Florida Jackson Morton,J. Patton Anderson, James Powers. Georgia. Robert Toombs,Howell Cobb, Francis Barton,Augustus R. Wright, Martin Crawford,Thomas R. Cobb, Judge Nesbitt,Augustus Keenan, Benjamin Hill,A. H. Stephens. Louisiana. John Perkins, Jr.,A. Declomet, C. M. Conrad,E. Sparrow, Duncan F. Kenner,Henry Marshall. Mississippi. Wiley P. Harris,Walker Brooke, W. S. Wilson,W. S. Barry, A. M. Clayton,J. T. Harrison, J. A. P. Campbell. North Carolina. J. L. Bridgers,M. W. Ransom, Ex-Gov. Swann. South Carolina. T. J. Withers,W. W. Boyce, R. B. Rhett, Jr.,James Chestnut, Jr., L. M. Keitt,R. W. Barnwell, G. G. Memminger.
to determine whether we shall retain them or not. As shown in the resolutions of the Convention already submitted to you, we have been called to pass upon the acts of one of the highest and most solemn assemblages known to our system of Government — the representatives of the people of Virginia in Convention assembled. We must here correct an error of fatal effect and consequence, which meets us at the threshold of our discussion The Convention of Virginia, which was elected on the 4th of February last, and assembled at Richmond on the 18th of the same month, was not the embodiment of the sovereignty of the people of Virginia. The were not clothed with the powers they have assumed to exercise; else could they have undone the work of our fathers, abolished our republican form of Government, and re-established the Crown of Great Britain as our supreme governing power. The act of our Legislature, convening this Convention, expressly provided that the distinct question should be su