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JOURNAL OF THE

full possession and exercise of all those rights of sovereignty which belong and appertain to a free and independent State.


The report was taken up, and, on motion of Mr. Toombs, the ordinance was twice read.

Mr. Hill, of Troup, moved that the preamble and resolutions offered by Mr. Johnson, of Jefferson, on yesterday, as a substitute for the resolutions adopted by the Convention raising the committee to report an ordinance to assert the right and fulfil the obligation of the State of Georgia to secede from the Union, be received as a substitute for the same.

On which motion the yeas and nays were demanded.

There are yeas 133; nays 164, to wit:

Those who voted in the affirniative are Messrs.:

Adams of Putnam, Fain,
Alexander of Upson, Farnsworth,
Arnold, Fields,
Beasley, Freeman,
Beck, Frier,
Bell of Banks, French,
Bell of Forsyth, Gordon,
Black, Graham,
Bowen, Hale,
Brewton, Haines,
Briscoe, Hamilton,
Brown of Marion, Harris of Hancock,
Brown of Webster, Harris of Meriwether,
Bullard, Henderson,
Bush, Herrington,
Byrd, Hill of Harris,
Cannon of Rabun, Hill of Troup,
Carswell, Hudson of Gwinnett,
Casey, Hudson of Harris,
Cochran of Terrell, Huggins,
Cochran of Wilkinson, Hust,
Cody, Jackson,
Collins, Johnson of Clayton,
Corn, Johnson of Hall,
Crawford of Greene, Johnson of Jefferson,
Davis of Putnam, Jordan,
Day, Kenan,
Dickerson, Ketchum,
Deupree, Killgore,