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hen his credentials should be denied she would assert the sovereignty of her soil, and it will be maintained at the point of the bayonet. In the House of Representatives the Southern members were equally bold. When Mr. Boteler, of Virginia, proposed by resolution to refer so much of the President's message as related to the great question before the House to a committee of one from each State (thirty-three), the members from the slave-labor States refused to vote. I do not vote, said Singleton, of Mississippi, because I have not been sent here to make any compromise or patch up existing difficulties. The subject will be decided by a convention of the people of my State. They all virtually avowed their determination to thwart all legislation in the direction of compromise or conciliation. The motion for the committee of thirty-three was adopted, and it became the recipient of a large number of suggestions, resolutions, and propositions offered in the House for amendments to th