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(MISSISSIPPI). [QUITMAN, JOHN A.]. Governor's Message, Delivered at a Called Session of the Legislature of the State of Mississippi, November 18th, 1850. [Caption title]. [Jackson, Mississippi: 1850]. 1st ed. 8vo. 8 pp. Removed. Browned & foxed, but very good. $500.00
A bitter attack on the Compromise of 1850 in which Gov. Quitman argues that alleged Southern gains are illusory, expressing the view that the national government has become hostile to slavery. Quitman urges "prompt and peaceable secession of the aggrieved States." Seeking a state convention on secession, the Governor called the Mississippi legislature into this November special session, but unionist sentiment was still strong, and in 1851 Southern Rights candidates suffered enormous reverses.