April 25, 1861. |
Signatures of the Commissioners.1 |
Provisional Constitution of the Montgomery League.2 They proceeded to appoint delegates to the Confederate Congress that was to assemble on the 29th;
April. |
April 25, 1861. |
Signatures of the Commissioners.1 |
Provisional Constitution of the Montgomery League.2 They proceeded to appoint delegates to the Confederate Congress that was to assemble on the 29th;
April. |
1 these were copied from the original parchment upon which the convention or treaty was engrossed and signed.
2 John Tyler, who was a chief manager among the conspirators of the Virginia Convention, telegraphed as follows to Governor Pickens, at three o'clock that afternoon:--“We are fellow-citizens once more. By an ordinance passed this day, Virginia has adopted the Provisional Government of the Confederate States.”
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