RESOLUTIONS
IN RELATION TO THE ELECTION OE A BLACK REPUBLI-
CAN TO THE OFFICE OF PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED
STATES.
Resolved, As the sense of this General Assembly, that the election of a
sectional President of the United States is the triumph and practical appli-
cation of principles subversive of the Constitution of the United States,
_ and incompatible with the peace and safety of the Southern States of the
confederacy.
Resolved, That Mr. Lincoln, the head of that party, having now been
elected to fill that office, it becomes the duty of South Carolina to take
prompt, decided and effective measures, to protect the lives and property of
her citizens and preserve her sovereign rights; and, to this end, that a
Convention of the people of this State ought to be called at the present
session of the Legislature, and that the election be held on the first Tues-
day, which will be the 8th of January next, and the Convention assemble
on Tuesday, the 15th day of the same month.
Resolved, That the committees on the military, of the Senate and of the
House of Representatives, be, and are hereby, instructed to sit as a Joint
Committee during the recess, and to prepare a plan for arming the State,
and for organizing a permanent military bureau. And that the said Com-
mittee be instructed to report by Bill, to their respective Houses, on the first
day of the reassembling of the General Assembly.
Resolved, That the Committee of Ways and Means be instructed by the
House, and the Committee of Finance and Banks be instructed by the
Senate, to sit as a Joint Committee during the recess, and prepare a scheme
for raising the supplies necessary to carry into effect the measures recommend-
edby the Military Committee, and that the Committee of Ways and Means
be, and is hereby, instructed by the House of Representatives to report by
Bill in that House on the first day of the reassembling of the General As-
sembly.
Resolved, That a Commissioner be appointed, by joint ballot of the
Senate and House of Representatives, to proceed immediately to Milledge-
ville, the seat of government of the State of Georgia, whose Legislature is
now in session, to announce to the government of that State that South
Carolina, impressed with a profound sense of the impending danger, will
immediately put herself in a state of efficient military defence, and will
order a Convention of the people, to assemble at an early day, to consider
and determine upon the measures proper to be adopted in this alarming
condition of public affairs; that, animated by feelings of the -strongest
attachment to the institutions of the South, and believing that our future
safety, security and repose will be completely and efficiently established by
harmony of action on the part of the Southern States, we earnestly hope
and trust that such may be, under the Divine guidance, the happy result of
our mutual deliberations.
Resolved, That the Legislatures of the other Southern States not being
now in session,, his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby, requested
to communicate these proceedings by letter to the several Executives of the
said States, expressing our sentiments of attachment to the institutions of
the South, and ardent desire for the success of all efforts for their preserya^,
tion and prosperity.
G. A. TKENHOLM.