![]() ![]() ![]() Our independence, and treat us as one of the nations of the earth, you can have friendly intercourse with us you can have an equitable division of the public property and of the existing public debt of the You may acquiesce in the revolution, and acknowledge the independence of the new confederacy, or you may make war on the seceding States, and attempt to force them back into a Union with you. And now he challenged the Northern legislators: It was, he frankly admitted, simply a revolution. Unlike other Southern politicians, he had never claimed that his state’s withdrawal was constitutional. Iverson began by having the Senate secretary read Georgia’s ordinance of secession, passed little more than a week earlier. No longer and interrupted one of his colleagues, begging leave to speak. Through the chaplain’s morning prayer, a report from the secretary of the Navy, and multiple petitions from citizens begging their lawmakers to forge a Union-saving compromise. Alfred Iverson of GeorgiaĪfter six years in the Senate, Alfred Iverson of Georgia had come to the Capitol that morning to bid farewell to his fellow legislators, to Washington - and to the United States of America. ![]()
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