The Correspondence Between the Commissioners of the State of So: Ca, to the Government at Washington and the President of the United States; Together ... by Order of the Convention (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
Excerpt from The Correspondence Between the Commissioners of the State of So: Ca, to the Government at Washington and the President of the United States; Together With the Statement of Messrs. Miles and Keitt, Printed by Order of the Convention
Sir: We have the honor to transmit to you a copy of the full powers from the Convention of the People of South Carolina, under which we are authorized and empowered to treat with the Government of the United States for the. Delivery of the forts, magazines, light houses and other real estate, with their appurtenances, within the limits of South Carolina, and also for an apportionment of the pub lic debt and for a division of all other property held by the Government of the United States as agent of the confed erated States, of which South Carolina was recently a member; and generally to negotiate as to all other meas ures and arrangements proper to be made and adopted in the existing relation of the parties, and for the continuance of peace and amity between this commonwealth and the Government at Washington.
In the execution of this trust, it is our duty to furnish you, as we now do, with an official Copy of the Ordinance of Secession, by which the State of South Carolina has resumed the powers she delegated to the Government of the United States and has declared her perfect sovereignty and independence.
It would also have been our duty to have informed you that we were ready to negotiate with you upon all such questions as are necessarily raised by the adoption of this ordinance, and that we were prepared to enter upon this negotiation with the earnest desire to avoid all unnecessary and hostile collision, and so to inaugurate our new relations as to secure mutual respect, general advantage and a future of good will and harmony beneficial to all the parties concerned.
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Sir: We have the honor to transmit to you a copy of the full powers from the Convention of the People of South Carolina, under which we are authorized and empowered to treat with the Government of the United States for the. Delivery of the forts, magazines, light houses and other real estate, with their appurtenances, within the limits of South Carolina, and also for an apportionment of the pub lic debt and for a division of all other property held by the Government of the United States as agent of the confed erated States, of which South Carolina was recently a member; and generally to negotiate as to all other meas ures and arrangements proper to be made and adopted in the existing relation of the parties, and for the continuance of peace and amity between this commonwealth and the Government at Washington.
In the execution of this trust, it is our duty to furnish you, as we now do, with an official Copy of the Ordinance of Secession, by which the State of South Carolina has resumed the powers she delegated to the Government of the United States and has declared her perfect sovereignty and independence.
It would also have been our duty to have informed you that we were ready to negotiate with you upon all such questions as are necessarily raised by the adoption of this ordinance, and that we were prepared to enter upon this negotiation with the earnest desire to avoid all unnecessary and hostile collision, and so to inaugurate our new relations as to secure mutual respect, general advantage and a future of good will and harmony beneficial to all the parties concerned.
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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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